{"id":102307,"date":"2016-07-02T15:19:12","date_gmt":"2016-07-02T14:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/procartoonists.org\/?p=102307"},"modified":"2022-03-02T09:19:53","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T09:19:53","slug":"banging-the-tabla-for-cartooning-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/procartoonists.org\/banging-the-tabla-for-cartooning-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Banging the tabla for cartooning in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/procartoonists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Dr.-Ritu-Khanduri-1.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-102313\" alt=\"Dr.-Ritu-Khanduri-1\" src=\"https:\/\/procartoonists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Dr.-Ritu-Khanduri-1-500x368.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"368\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Ritu Gairola Khanduri<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;This is a good time for cartooning&#8221; <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The subhead above may have resulted in some of our members raising an eyebrow or, more likely, uttering the odd oath or two&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>However, taking good news where we can find it (India via America in this instance), the words make for a refreshingly upbeat change of tone and were spoken by Ritu Gairola Khanduri, a cultural anthropologist and historian, in an interview with Sujeet Rajan on The American Bazaar website.<\/p>\n<p>Ritu goes on to say &#8220;I think it\u2019s an art form the youth will give new shape to in the coming years&#8221; and, as if that wasn&#8217;t positive enough, &#8220;They also have a rich history in India to look back to and build on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We know somewhere very similar&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/procartoonists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Caricaturing-culture-in-India-upper-cover-328x500.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-102314\" alt=\"Caricaturing-culture-in-India-upper-cover-328x500\" src=\"https:\/\/procartoonists.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Caricaturing-culture-in-India-upper-cover-328x500.jpg\" width=\"328\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ritu Gairola Khanduri is the author of &#8216;<em>Caricaturing Culture in India: Cartoons and History in the Modern World&#8217; <\/em>(Cambridge University Press).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanbazaaronline.com\/2016\/06\/20\/cartooning-not-dying-art-india-good-time-cartooning-ritu-gairola-khanduri-45248\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full interview here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ritu Gairola Khanduri &#8220;This is a good time for cartooning&#8221; The subhead above may have resulted in some of our members raising an eyebrow or, more likely, uttering the odd oath or two&#8230; However, taking good news where we can find it (India via America in this instance), the words make for a refreshingly upbeat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":150,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - 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