Tomorrow is your last day to catch famous cartoonist Hemant Morparia's Caricatures of cell phone-toting rats, absent-minded surgeons and the many ironies of life in India
Tomorrow is your last day to catch famous cartoonist Hemant Morparia's Caricatures of cell phone-toting rats, absent-minded surgeons and the many ironies of life in India
Sarkozy puts the burqa behind bars. Indian deities are credited with inventing multi-tasking, and lab rats talk on cell phones in Caricatures. Veteran cartoonist Hemant Morparia's exhibition at the Alliance Franu00e7aise gallery displays 20 cartoons that brim with the same fresh wit that he started off with 20 years ago.u00a0
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Hemant Morparia.
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Caricatures is a precursor to Morparia's show in France. He has been invited to stay, show and draw in port town La Rochelle, where he will exhibit with renowned French satirist Georges Wolinski. Known as the most provocative cartoonist in France, the 75 year-old has been given the rank of Chevalier in France's Legion d'Honneur, originally established by Napoleon Bonaparte to honour civilian and military achievements. Wolinski was in India last year and had sketched his observations of our country. "His work on India, and my Indian work will be up together in early 2010. It will be called India's Revenge," chuckles Morparia.
Morparia will also display some sculptures and three-dimensional caricatures of prominent politicians and personalities including the mysterious guru Osho. "Humour is the link that reconciles our mortality with spiritual aspirations," according to Morparia. It makes sense when you consider the following lines Osho once uttered:
"The purpose of the joke is not the joke. The purpose is the laughter that follows, because in that laughter your thinking stops. In that laughter, you are no more mind. And after that laughter, just a very small gap and I can reach to the deepest core of your being."
At: Caricatures by Hemant Morparia is on view till September 30 at Alliance Franu00e7aise de Bombay, 40 Theosophy Hall, New Marine Lines.
Call: 22035993.
To see more cartoons by Morparia, log on to https://www.myspace.com/morparia
