Bharat Bandh

Inspired by thoughts about the bandh and my own tweet from today...




See also: Previous cartoon about inflation and the fuel price hike

Indian Political League

Play by the rules or else...

Happy 60th Republic Day

What does it mean to you?

Politics is child's play

Cartoons about Indian politicos who started out young...

A day for brothers and sisters

Like most Indian festivals, Raksha Bandhan too seems to be losing meaning amidst commercialization.

Cartoons inspired by this sentiment...





See also: Last year's Raksha Bandhan cartoon

Does Mallika rock twitter?

twitter definitely thinks so.

According to twitter staff, "Since Mallika joined the Twitter service, membership in India has skyrocketed."

And so, Mallika Sherawat became the first Asian star to visit the twitter HQ.

Cartoons inspired by the above stated incidents...





Thanks to fossiloflife for suggesting the theme for this post.

The Premise of the Promise!

Watching the politicians give their election speeches, makes me wonder what they're really thinking...

Happy Voting Season!

Vote Nobody!

Here is one voting option which I didn't mention in my previous cartoon about Indian elections...

Many people may not agree with this as they feel that votes are precious and must not be wasted. However, if you can't decide on the lesser evil from amongst all the candidates (It all boils down to that doesn't it?) just take the easy way out and vote for nobody!

As per Rule 49-O of the Conduct of Elections Rules of India, voters are actually entitled to avail this option!

Jai Ho

A tribute to AR Rahman on winning two Oscars for his music in Slumdog Millionaire...

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Happy Lohri!

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The festival of Lohri is celebrated with great pomp in India on the 13th day of January. It's an auspicious day that marks the end of the winter season and the advent of the sun (which symbolizes knowledge, wisdom and prosperity.) Celebrations include bonfire gatherings in the night, popping of popcorn and puffed rice, traditional dinner, prayers, feasting on sweets made of jaggery, peanuts and sesame seeds, dancing and singing of traditional folk songs. The first Lohri of a newly married couple or newborn baby are particularly important. In India, Lohri is more than just a festival, it's a way of life! In the days leading up to Lohri, children visit homes of neighbours, sing traditional Lohri songs, and ask for coins and sweets in return.

'Tamaso Ma Jyotir Gamaya'. May you always go towards the Light and never towards darkness.

Here's how our Lohri bonfire looked like...

Indian Democracy at its worst best!

Two toons that tell the true tale behind India's so called 'Democracy'. My toon was inspired by this original toon by musicmom...

Gurupurab

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Guru Purab means 'festival of the Guru' and denotes the Birthday of Guru Nanak, founder of the Sikh faith. Besides being the founder of the Sikh religion, Guru Nanak was also a great poet, philosopher, humanist and a powerful social reformer, a teacher of mankind.

Here are some words of wisdom from him...

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Guru Nanak also attacked the vicious tentacles of corruptions in society. He strongly protested against formalism and ritualism and carried the message of peace and of love to everybody. He was very liberal in his views and tried his level best to rid people of superstitous beliefs. Also, he firmly believed that there are no barriers of race, class, caste, creed or color which check the progress of any in reaching the goal. He realized the great truth of the brotherhood of religions and preached the universal brotherhood of man.

A beautiful summary of his teachings is contained in one of his hymns:

Love the saints of every faith:
Put away thy pride.
Remember the essence of religion
Is meekness and sympathy,
Not fine clothes,
Not the Yogi's garb and ashes,
Not the blowing of the horns,
Not the shaven head,
Not long prayers,
Not recitations and torturings,
Not the ascetic way,
But a life of goodness and purity,
Amid the world's temptations.

Gurupurab is the most important festival of the Sikh calendar and is celebrated with great zeal by Sikhs from all over the world.

Read more from wikipedia on how we celebrate this festival of Gurupurab

Happy Gurupurab to all!

Meera

Of Ideals, Idols and Idles!

Indian Idol sure is overhyped...

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And the festivities continue...

The festive season is here!

Read the full post at my Comic Relief!!! Blog.

On raksha Bandhan...

It's always the same story, year after year...

61st Indian Independence day!

Salute to the nation and to all those who earned us this freedom!

Gold!!!

And finally, we stuck gold...

On second thoughts...

It may not be a man's world, but its definitely not a woman's country...
In India, emancipation for women is definitely a myth. What with a crime against an Indian woman every 3 minutes and a rape every 29 minutes, we cant even talk about safety for women, forget anything else!