Somersaults Of The Saviour

This week issue of AV carried various caricatures of Karunandhi, criticizing his move to quit UPA II government. Some of the caricatures below,

His somersaults becomes more authentic here,

And some more for your view,

I liked the last one with the "one-hand gig".

Which one you like ?

Election Budget! - Cartoon

I am becoming a fan of Hasib Khan' cartoons in Ananda Vikatan. 

Earlier few weeks before I posted his "Rajapaksha cartoon", which reflected the real side of the war-torn country. In the last week edition Hasib Khan drew a cartoon labeled as "Election Budget !".

There are four characters here, 2 fat pigs, a man seated in the middle ( must be PC-look-a-like ) and outside the door we see people standing ( aam-adhmi ).

The two fat pig headed guys in the suit represents authoritarian, money-minded people, kind of the Snowball and Napoleon from George Orwell's Animal Farm. PC-look-a-like reaction is as if he says "hey dudes.. look what I did for you.. happy now!!", as usual the common-man is left outside with nothing.

Not getting into the debate of this year's budget is good or bad ( I don't understand most of the economics diction's\concepts ), a govt role is to satisfy or care for people across all-sections in the society, which I feel PC had done his best. We will see the outcome in coming years, till then enjoy the cartoon.

Some Strange Characters - Part 2

Few weeks before, TeaShop Talks wrote about strange characters in Tamil Nadu, , it talks about characters in general and doesn't indicate any particular person – Disclaimer L. This week Ananda Vikakan there was an article somewhat similar to my post.

The following few from the magazine with my list,

• Most people are obsessed with Kattai Bag, especially ladies.
• After or while eating biriyani definitely a coke\pepsi is must, geeranathuku romba nalladu- pati sonangee.

• Talk about prohibiting pirated CD/DVD’s, but will be ready to watch movies in the thirutudvd.com\torrent or pirated disk. They will “proudly” say .. “I downloaded it” as if they solved a Ramanujam’ Math problem.

•  Constant honking while driving. There are some geniuses who tail behind the speeding ambulances.

Note: This pic is not from Tamil Nadu, it looks like Delhi

• In departmental stores, they don’t use plastic bags for consumers  because corporation has banned it, but the products are packed using plastic materials!. One rule for manufacture\distributor and one rule for customer-ra (Typical Tamil to English translation).

Endnote: After doing all the listed above, they will write an article. Not strange !!

Rajapaksa - Welcome to India

From- Anandha Vikatan

An image is worth of 1000 words, this week Anandha Vikatan carried a cartoon ( By - Hasib Khan ) of Rajapaksa walking into India with blood-stained shoes. As Justice Kutja wrote about Modi in his blog (All The Perfumes of Arabia), Mr. Rajapaksha cannot wash his blood-stained hands in any temples in India. Today, there was disturbing pictures of the Prabhakaran’ son killed in a point blank range, which was published by Channel 4 UK.

There is a strong protest in Tamil Nadu (only Tamil Nadu) against Sri Lanka for human rights allegations and war crimes. These evidences should come from Tamil Nadu and not UK. When the war was closing in SL, international media was barred from North SL, but by the media strength that we have in Tamil Nadu, why did one… just one journalist was there secretly at that time to collect the evidences.

I have a question “who and what makes a Tamilan ?”, I have to think hard.