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Vote for Laughter
A witty look at the strange world of politics by Indias best-loved cartoonist
After the phenomenal success of A Dose of Laughter, a collection of R.K. Laxmans cartoons and jokes about the medical profession, comes the second book in the series, which takes a humorous look at the colourful personalities, peculiar codes of conduct and bombastic rhetoric that characterize the inimitable world of politics.
A Vote for Laughter contains a hundred of R.K. Laxmans classic Common Man cartoons that have to do with political subjectsfrom party meetings, election campaigns and VVIP movements to cabinet reshuffles, horse trading and foreign tours, not to forget the activity that for Laxman defines the Indian the impulse to rush to the well of the House. These are accompanied by a hundred of the funniest jokes about politics and politicians, collected from all over the world.
A Vote for Laughter is an exhilarating collection that will entertain everyone who enjoys seeing the farcical streak in our contemporary politics, even as we take pride in being the worlds largest democracy.
After the phenomenal success of A Dose of Laughter, a collection of R.K. Laxmans cartoons and jokes about the medical profession, comes the second book in the series, which takes a humorous look at the colourful personalities, peculiar codes of conduct and bombastic rhetoric that characterize the inimitable world of politics.
A Vote for Laughter contains a hundred of R.K. Laxmans classic Common Man cartoons that have to do with political subjectsfrom party meetings, election campaigns and VVIP movements to cabinet reshuffles, horse trading and foreign tours, not to forget the activity that for Laxman defines the Indian the impulse to rush to the well of the House. These are accompanied by a hundred of the funniest jokes about politics and politicians, collected from all over the world.
A Vote for Laughter is an exhilarating collection that will entertain everyone who enjoys seeing the farcical streak in our contemporary politics, even as we take pride in being the worlds largest democracy.
280 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2003
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R.K. Laxman
57 books87 followers'''Rasipuram Krishnaswamy Iyer Laxman''' (born October 23 1924, Mysore, India) is an Indian cartoonist, illustrator and humorist. He is widely regarded as India's greatest-ever cartoonist and is best known for his creation ''The Common Man".
R. K. Laxman was awarded the prestigious Padma Bhushan by the Government of India. He has won many awards for his cartoons, including Asia's top journalism award, the Ramon Magsaysay Award, in 1984.
R. K. Laxman was awarded the prestigious Padma Bhushan by the Government of India. He has won many awards for his cartoons, including Asia's top journalism award, the Ramon Magsaysay Award, in 1984.
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October 22, 2016
A hundred (though, to be truthful, just ninety-nine, since one is a repeat) of RK Laxman’s cartoons about politics and politicians form half of this book. The other half of this book consists of jokes about the same subject, ranging from hilarious one-liners like Political speeches are like a steer: a point here, a point there, and a lot of bull in between, to longer, more complex ones that go into more than a page.
The jokes are funny, and are a good counterbalance to Laxman’s cartoons. Barring one or two cartoons that might need you to be knowledgable about certain aspects of Indian politics, most are very generic, poking fun at the average neta’s propensity for telling tall tales, for promising the stars, whiling away time in office, honing the fine art of denial, resorting to underhand means to win elections, and so on. My favourite one—and so appropriate even now—is one where a minister and his wife are sitting at home, with a newspaper beside them listing all the countries the minister’s been visiting over the past few months. The wife is happily telling her husband that considering how very popular he is abroad, he should try standing for election in all those countries.
All in all, a funny and clever set of cartoons and jokes, let down only by the fact that nobody seems to have paid much attention to editing them. There’s that one cartoon that’s been repeated; there are several jokes that veer from one tense to another or contain grammatical errors.
The jokes are funny, and are a good counterbalance to Laxman’s cartoons. Barring one or two cartoons that might need you to be knowledgable about certain aspects of Indian politics, most are very generic, poking fun at the average neta’s propensity for telling tall tales, for promising the stars, whiling away time in office, honing the fine art of denial, resorting to underhand means to win elections, and so on. My favourite one—and so appropriate even now—is one where a minister and his wife are sitting at home, with a newspaper beside them listing all the countries the minister’s been visiting over the past few months. The wife is happily telling her husband that considering how very popular he is abroad, he should try standing for election in all those countries.
All in all, a funny and clever set of cartoons and jokes, let down only by the fact that nobody seems to have paid much attention to editing them. There’s that one cartoon that’s been repeated; there are several jokes that veer from one tense to another or contain grammatical errors.
September 29, 2014
A light, yet fun read!
May 14, 2016
Nice, quick and easy read!
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