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Other authors / contributors: | Balakrishnan, Vinod, editor.
Venkat, Vishaka, editor.
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ISBN: | 1527542939 9781527542938 9781527539945 1527539946
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index. Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 22, 2020).
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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.
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Other form: | Print version: Balakrishnan, Vinod. Conversations with Indian Cartoonists : Politickle Lines. Newcastle-upon-Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publisher, ©2019 9781527539945
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