If daily news and commentary can be likened to an enormous and often indigestible meal, the daily cartoon must surely be—at least in the Indian context—the pickle, something to make you take a sharp breath or smack your lips or, on the rare occasion, force a muted expletive. In other words, a good cartoon should ideally elicit a reaction (barring a yawn) of some sort from the reader. The truly successful cartoon stings without doing any mortal damage, pinches without drawing blood embarrasses without humiliating.
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P.C. MOHAN
THE PENGUIN BOOK OF INDIAN CARTOONS by Abu Abraham Penguin India, 1988, pp., 45.00
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