Conversations with Indian cartoonists : politickle lines /

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Imprint:Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019.
©2019
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13541924
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Other authors / contributors:Balakrishnan, Vinod, editor.
Venkat, Vishaka, editor.
ISBN:1527542939
9781527542938
9781527539945
1527539946
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 22, 2020).
Summary:Picking up the pen is, sometimes, like playing with fire, especially in the business of political cartooning. In a profession of stroke-and-tell, where less is more, the brooding cartoonist turns everyday events into spaces for engagement. They draw the line between concern and apathy to bring issues into public view, invariably, shaking us out of our inattentional blindness. After all, they are a tribe--an endangered one--with the silly belief that the funny bone must be tickled. Cartooning in India--a Raj legacy--has come a long way from its colonial beginnings and Punch-imitations. Since In.
Other form:Print version: Balakrishnan, Vinod. Conversations with Indian Cartoonists : Politickle Lines. Newcastle-upon-Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publisher, ©2019 9781527539945