Front page Times of India today – this photograph of the Femina Miss India contest…
And then later in the day, going through R K Laxman’s collection (for perhaps the hundredth time) – The common man goes to the village, I came across this…
If she manages to stop smiling for just a moment, we can get an idea of what she looks like!
Laxman’s cartoons are truly timeless. Each one of them relevant now as they were when made years, even decades ago. And scarily for India, will perhaps always remain relevant. (I love the common man’s wife – she is so sharp!)
In the same collection, this too…
You folks in remote villages, must learn somehow to manage as we city-dwellers do! We don’t have water and electricity either these days!
Read Rashmi Bansal’s Lights, Action… Cut! to know what this means to us “Rest of Maharashtra” dwellers.
[Note: these cartoons are photographs I have taken of pages from the book since I could not find them anywhere online]
Was wondering how come scanned pics look this good! Mmm… no wonder they are photos :).