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Brushing up the years: a cartoonists history of india, 1947 to the present includes a collection of cartoons from one of india's most beloved artists, r k laxman mr laxman chronicles the journey of india in his illustrations with the help of his famous creation - the common manindia has experienced a turbulent journey since its independence in 1947 and has witnessed several significant political, economic, and social events, each of which have been aptly captured through the imaginative eyes of r k laxman his work is heavily doused in satire and is a commentary on the lives of indians and reflects the ideas of being an indianbrushing up the years: a cartoonists history of india, 1947 to the present includes some of the artist's best works that are witty, charming, funny, thought-provoking, and mischievous this book will be just as entertaining for individuals who are not familiar with r k laxman's work as it merely reflects the life of the ordinary indian man this book was published by penguin india in 2008 and is available in paperback
- Sales Rank: #1844753 in Books
- Published on: 2008-01-16
- Original language: English
- Dimensions: .0" h x .0" w x .0" l, 1.41 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 312 pages
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Vintage Laxman. Brilliant. Selection however could have been better
By Abhinav Agarwal
A drive through India's political landscape over the past 60 years, as seen and drawn by RK Laxman, possibly India's most famous cartoonist. The selection, at over 300 cartoons is good, but still cannot do justice to Laxman's genius, and some notable cartoons are conspicuous by their absence.
RK Laxman's satire is never malicious, yet always succeeds in conveying the point across. Looking at the cartoons, you also get some insight into Laxman's political views themselves. Despite his wicked jabs at the establishment, Laxman remained more or less a Congress supporter, looking askance at the efforts by opposition parties to stitch together a united coalition against the Congress' rule. He continually viewed the communists, or the Left, as an anachronism, and a party caught in a time warp, opposed to modernization and economic liberalization. His cartoons stood steadfastly against religious communalism, and has been harsh towards the likes of LK Advani, the BJP leader, or towards Bal Thackeray, the Shiv Sena supremo, and who ironically, is a cartoonist himself, and had worked with Laxman in the 1940s!
A sampling:
--- With economic liberalization coming in, one cartoon shows Mahatma Gandhi walking down Mahatma Gandhi Road, surrounded by logos and banners emblazoned with such brands as "Mac Donalds", "Coca Cola", "Pepsi", "Kellog's", "Arrow", "Woolworth", and more.
--- On the liberation movements in Goa and Pondicherry - the colonial powers are depicted as simians rampaging in a house, with whom Nehru is pleading to vacate the house (India), explaining that while the entire world was a colonial jungle once, the world has now changed. This is followed by an equally trenchant, yet 'silent' cartoon - not containing a single word - where Nehru is seen dropping a dead rat into a dustbin; the rat being the Portugese, who were evicted from Goa in 1961 by the Indian military forces. The punchline, so to say, is seen as the horrified expression on the faces of several people in suits, supposedly representing colonial sympathizers.
--- The common man is also India's own superman. A cartoon from 1969 shows the common man as the answers to the Indian space program's search for a person as someone who "... can survive without water, food, light, air, shelter!"
--- Several cartoons are devoted to the period during the Emergency (1975-1977), and then of the Janata Party rule.
Indira Gandhi is carrying a placard that says, "I toppled Janata govt." Raj Narain is seen remarking to Charan Singh in the background, "That's a lie! Everybody knows we worked for two years and brought it down."
--- The extent to which the political class had become alienated from the history and ethos of India's independence is reflected in a cartoon around the time the movie Gandhi was released. A politician is seen coming out of a screening of Gandhi, remarking, "Very moving. I understand it is a true life story."
--- Pages 101 onwards have several cartoons from 1984 and 1985, covering such topics as Indira Gandhi's assassination and Rajiv Gandhi's ascension to prime minister-ship. The tone of Laxman's cartoons on Rajiv Gandhi reflects the popular sentiment and overwhelmingly sympathetic attitudes of the people towards Rajiv Gandhi - seen at the time as a honest politician trying to clean up the system.
--- Laxman's pocket cartoons, "You Said It", start to make their appearance from page 166. These are generally more general in nature, and rarely feature any political personality, even though they do cover topics and personalities of the day.
--- One of the most poignant and saddest cartoons in the collection is on page 120. A woman labourer is carrying a load of construction material on her head, while carrying a toddler in her lap at the same time, who is also carrying a similar sized load over her hears. The mother is admonishing the child, "Learn to balance it properly, silly girl! Remember, soon you will have to start working." Seen in the background is a banner proclaiming the celebration of International Women's Day.
--- With over 500 million telephone connections in India today, this cartoon is a reminder of the absolute mess that the Indian telephony monopoly was, run as it was by the Indian government. A person manning a desk replies to a person, "Yes of course it works. It worked on May 4th, June 21st, and again on the second of this month."
--- Laxman had evidently not anticipated the emergence of the vile and never-ending mega 'saas-bahu' teleserials of the past decade when he drew this cartoon in the 1980s. A father is telling the mother, "Don't get angry with him - he wants to know what happened in the earlier parts because the poor fellow was not born when the serial started!" The serial in question is the religious epic Ramayana, which was shown for a little less than two years on television. Contrast this with some of the teletrash that has been going on for years and years...
--- One of the most famous cartoons, that Laxman drew in 1990, is one that shows VP Singh, the then Prime Minister, in progressively diminishing sizes, but with the size of his cap remaining the same - a reflection of VP Singh's Mandal card, that (re)introduced the monster of caste-based politics and reservations into the social fabric of India.
--- Cartoons at the beginning of the 1990s feature Narsimha Rao, and his (in)famous indecisiveness.
--- VP Singh makes his appearance on page 109, as the finance minister in Rajiv Gandhi's cabinet.
--- The infamous Bofors scandal makes it debut on page 130.
--- Arun Shourie, India's finest journalist and possibly her most efficient minister, makes a lone appearance on page 270, on a cartoon on the rapid pace of disinvestment under the NDA government.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Pure Laxman, Pure Gold
By Ramesh G
I grew up looking forward to the Times of India's Laxman cartoons everyday. His keen understanding of the subtlety of the political or economic situation in India in the 1970s-80s (it wasnt a good time) and yet being able to display it with light humor remains, to me, unparalleled anywhere or anytime since. (with all due respect to America's G. B. Trudeau).
This collection allows to me to recollect those times, every page recalling the corruption, incompetence, and even grinding deprivation of Indian life back then (and even now) but still able to leave you with a smile so that you could go on with your day ahead.
He started in 1947 and apparently continues cartooning even today - the Government awarded him the Padma Vibhushan - India's 2nd highest civilian honour in 2005, shows that even bureaucrats can occasionally know how to do something right.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Good stuff!
By Karthikeyan Valliyurnatt
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