India: Cartooning breaks out of the frame
Cartooning in India is starting to move beyond the constraints that have long imprisoned it, reports Sarnath Banerjee.
Sarnath Bannerjee
As India enters late capitalism after two decades of soft socialism, cartoonists find themselves needing to deal with an entirely new set of concerns. They are grappling with an ever-changing urban mythology, a fairly conservative middle-class, and a self-congratulatory media which has very little space for oblique commentary.
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