Cartoon from Calcutta..!
Views From Abroad
Robert Clements
Monday, April 30, 2012 - Somewhere in West Bengal a woman wearing a cotton sari and rubber slippers stares at newspapers and watches every TV programme. “There,” she shouts. “Where madam?” “That cartoon on page four!” “That is not a cartoon madam that is an Archie comic strip!” “That girl looks like me!” “That is not a girl madam, that is Archie’s friend Jughead’s dog!” “Arrest the cartoonist, send our police to his home, send our workers to thrash him!” “Madam that is a comic strip and the artist is in America!” “Doesn’t Bengal have an extradition treaty with America?”
“No madam, states don’t have, maybe the Centre has!” “Draw up a treaty, I want that man who painted that dog which looks like me to be brought for trial to Bengal!” “Okay madam, and madam!”
“Do not interrupt I am looking at page five!” “Page five does not have cartoons madam!” “Here look, see what a cartoon they have made of me!” “That is photo of you madam!” “But I look like a cartoon!” “No madam, yes madam, no madam, and madam?” ”What is it?” “There are many documents that require your signature, many decisions that need your approval, you have not gone to office for a week now!”
“Can’t you see I am busy? If I am not alert some cartoonist will get away, do you want that to happen?” “No madam!” “Look at that, look at that!” “Where madam?” “Here on page four, do I look so awful?” “That is not you madam, that is a photo of Manmohan Singh!”
“Now they are cartooning me to look like him?” “No madam that is him!” “Ban this paper!” “You have already banned it madam!” “Ban it in my house!” “Then how will you find out who is cartooning you madam?” “I know who is cartooning me!”
“Who madam?” “The rest of India, but I will win, I will hang all the cartoonists, I will crush the journalists. I will…” “Madam your moustache fell off!” “Quick close the windows, I don’t want some cartoonist seeing me without my Hitler moochy..!”
—Email:bobsbanter@gmail.com
“No madam, states don’t have, maybe the Centre has!” “Draw up a treaty, I want that man who painted that dog which looks like me to be brought for trial to Bengal!” “Okay madam, and madam!”
“Do not interrupt I am looking at page five!” “Page five does not have cartoons madam!” “Here look, see what a cartoon they have made of me!” “That is photo of you madam!” “But I look like a cartoon!” “No madam, yes madam, no madam, and madam?” ”What is it?” “There are many documents that require your signature, many decisions that need your approval, you have not gone to office for a week now!”
“Can’t you see I am busy? If I am not alert some cartoonist will get away, do you want that to happen?” “No madam!” “Look at that, look at that!” “Where madam?” “Here on page four, do I look so awful?” “That is not you madam, that is a photo of Manmohan Singh!”
“Now they are cartooning me to look like him?” “No madam that is him!” “Ban this paper!” “You have already banned it madam!” “Ban it in my house!” “Then how will you find out who is cartooning you madam?” “I know who is cartooning me!”
“Who madam?” “The rest of India, but I will win, I will hang all the cartoonists, I will crush the journalists. I will…” “Madam your moustache fell off!” “Quick close the windows, I don’t want some cartoonist seeing me without my Hitler moochy..!”
—Email:bobsbanter@gmail.com
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