Cartoonists Tom Toles (above) and Ruben Bolling (Tom the Dancing Bug) argue that a satirical drawing, like a turbaned Obama on a New Yorker cover, are only successful if they work without context:
… it’s actually less clear what the satirical intent of The New Yorker cartoon is. It just shows an America-hating, terrorist President […]
This is the cover of the New Yorker for the issue dated July 21, 2008.
Barack Obama, it has been reported, has no comment. David Remnick, editor of the New Yorker, says it’s a satire so can everyone please grope their elbows and find their funny bones. John McCain’s spokesman has said the cover is “tasteless […]
Sculptor Anish Kapoor who has taken the Freudian fascination for big, shiny things to whole new level talks to The Art Newspaper. Excerpts (emphases mine):
TAN: How has the reception of Indian art changed recently given the success of artists like Subodh Gupta, Bharti Kher, Jitish Kallat and T.V. Santosh?
AK: It’s been a long time coming. […]
What I’m going to write about happened yesterday so I’m a little late in writing about it. Actually, it happened day before yesterday because it was in yesterday’s newspapers. While I’m fully aware that in the world of internet reporting it’s better never than late, this is not an e-paper (hallelujah). Therefore, let me tell […]
This was a surprise. Yesterday’s Delhi Times had a piece – probably taken from some website or syndicated from an international publication – listing Hollywood’s “most mushy lines of dialogue”. The list mostly contains genuine samples of mu…
With minimum comment, here are selected sentences from Khalid Mohammed’s review of the film Anamika, in today’s HT:Ananth Narayan Mahadevan’s Anamika treats Alfred Hitchcock’s Rebecca (1940) as if it were chewing gum. Chomp, chomp, chomp till i…
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In the best of times, South Asia rarely gets interjected in presidential debates. Pakistan gets all the attention because its border is teeming with Al Qaeda and its leaders come with hands outstretched. China gets vaguely mentioned as an economic threat, and sometimes India alongside, the new hyphenated relationship.
So when a presidential debate comes off […]
Several witnesses said the aircraft barely left the ground as it attempted to take off on Tuesday afternoon, but smashed through a wall and broke up as it hit shops and houses in the commercial district of Goma. A former pilot, Dunia Sindani, who was among the passengers, told a local radio station that the […]
Yesterday the Times of India fluffed the globalization of the Indian publishing industry — a worthy thesis. And it did so by name-dropping (1) bartending for dummies; (2) Khaled ‘Melodrama’ Hosseini; and (3) The Secret, whose thesis that the universe rearranges itself to suit your desires is trivially refuted by my sex life. The story […]
I love our newspapers, sometimes more than I love the Guardian whom at present I love most intensely since they’ve shared with us an extract from Philip Pullman’s Once Upon a Time in the North, the book that will be the background to the Northern Lights trilogy. Newspapers in India realise that we live in […]
The WaPo misspells India’s capital. I hear Ghandi’s from Dehli (sic, sic).
Here’s the story.
Our ‘Hillary’s Dubya moment‘ post was apparently shown on CNN last night around 7pm ET (thanks, El SD and RC):
… it was on The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer. The voiceover called it …with her gaffe being called by some blogs as ‘Hillary’s Dubya Moment.’ Then there was a quick zoom shot of that post… […]
Pravin Sathe shows us what overlapping multiple versions of the same TV news story look like in How You See It. [ via waxy]
Cambridger and The Office star Vera ‘Mindy’ Chokalingam made the cover of the Improper Bostonian’s Valentine’s issue this week, pithy as always: