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Dancing with demons

Image By: Manjula Padmanabhan

Cartooning, stress and laughing at death.

There are two questions I used to be asked by journalists when they interviewed me as a cartoonist. The first question was: Do Indians have a sense of humour? This was asked in an earnest but mournful tone − We Indians don't have a sense of humour, do we? − as if the answer was utterly obvious: Of course we don't! We're a nation of grim-faced rationalists for whom humour and kinky sex are one and the same!