Swiftian Satire

 

 

An exhibition of Rajinder Puri’s cartoons

 

 

 

Inauguration by Shri Soli J. Sorabjee, President IIC on Tuesday, 3 May 2016 at 18:30

 

 

 

Rajinder Puri’s cartoons are in the ‘whiplash satire’ tradition of cartooning that grew in the West immediately after the end of World War II in 1945. Till Puri came along cartoons in the English Language Press were fairly gentle in their satire but Puri’s sharp, acerbic cartoons reminded newspaper readers that their elected representatives in the Legislative Assemblies and Parliament, regardless of their Party affiliations, were a shifty lot whose activities had to be closely monitored

 

 

 

As part of this exhibition, there will be a talk in the Annexe Lecture Room II on:

 

Friday, 6 May 2016 at 18:30

 

Memories of Rajinder

 

Speaker: Shri Sudhir Dar, well-known cartoonist