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Cartoon Watch Cartoon
exhibition
inaugurated
in London

A
rguably India's only cartoon magazine Cartoon
Watch exhibited its first ever overseas
cartoon exhibition in Nehru Centre London.Amidst a
galaxy of notedpersonalities the Exhibition titled Life
is a Joke and other theme based cartoons were
inaugurated by Senior BBC Hindi Journalist Kailash
Badhwar. Prominent among those present on the
occasion include daughter of Ustad Alla Rakha
Khurshida Aulia, Senior British Cartoonist Ron Mac
Gary and upcoming cartoonist Shirley Chan, Nehru
Centre Director Monika Kapil Mohta, M Subhashini
of Press and Information Bureau, Prabhakar Kaza of
HSBC Bank, Tejendra Sharma,Manish
Tiwari,Aakash Verma, Pawan Arya and many
others.After inaugurating the exhibition, Mr
Bhadhwar said it is indeed noteworthy to know that
after the legendary cartoonist K Shankar Pillai's
Shankar's Weekly such a magazine based on cartoons
is being produced from a small town like Raipur in
the newly carved state of Chhatisgarh rather than
from Mumbai or Delhi.He added that the cartoons on
display portray a vivid illustration of old and
new alike and also praised the cartoon series
'Life is a Joke' of Cartoon Watch Editor and
Cartoonist Triambak Sharma,saying its sends across
a message for life.It gives me immense pleasure
that the programme in honour of Ustad Alla Rakha
begins with a tinge of laughter and humour,quipped
special guest Khurshida Aulia. She further added
saying that her father Ustad Alla Rakha was a fun
loving person and he wanted that people should
have a good sense of humour.Director of Nehru
Centre Monika Kapil Mohta who anchored the
programme proudly pointed out that it is a rare
occasion that a cartoon exhibition is on display
at the Centre. She praised the efforts of Triambak
Sharma in putting this huge work on display here
and added that usually we give a week's time to
display exhibits,but this effort needs that extra
bit and hence we have allocated two weeks time for
the exhibition.Taking a leaf out of his exhibits
'Life is a Joke' Triambak Sharma said that people
are admitted to ICU if they are serious,and
despite that people dont give up being serious all
the times. He said he doesnt want anyone to be too
serious in life, rather enjoy life as it comes by
and that is what made him take the plunge to make
people laugh through his satirical and humorous
magazine Cartoon Watch. On this
occasion, a special international edition of
Cartoon Watch was released. It may be mentioned
that the exhibition has a wide range of cartoons
since the days of Shankar's Weekly including
the Cartoon Watch's 12 year humorous journey.
Besides this the exhibition also displays cartoons
of its Lifetime Achievement Awardees and cartoons
by Shyam Jagota of Delhi, BV Panduranga Rao of
Bangalore, Sheeri of Kerala, Nimish Thakkar of
Gujarat, Gopal Krishna and Reddy of Hyderabad and
Prabhakar Jhalke of Nasik amidst others. The
exhibition is on until May
9,2008.
-Alison
Rebello
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