Dharamsala June 27- Newspapers cartoons have often been looked at as satirical but a very few people tend to know what the cartoonist really want to convey through his brush or pencil. Friends of Tibet (India) will hold a mobile exhibition of cartoons on Tibet by Indian cartoonists from 1950 to 2005. ‘Indian Cartoonists on Tibet’, according to the organisers, is an exhibition of selected cartoons on the Tibet issue and the tumultuous Indo-Chinese relations by renowned Indian cartoonists. The exhibition will open at Kashi Art Cafe in Cochin.
Cartoons by famous cartoonists RK Laxman, Shankar, Ranga, OV Vijayan, Ravi Shankar, Rajinder Puri, Mario Miranda, Yesudasan, Kaak, Balu, Madhu Omalloor, Thommy, Ponnappa, Morparia and Prakash Shetty.
Claude Arpi, Pondicherry based French author and Tibet expert has prepred the texts and introduction for the exhibition. Dedicated to His Holiness the Dalai Lama on his 70th birthday, the exhibition will run for five days. The cartoons, which can be downloadable, will be available online at www.friendsoftibet.org/cartoons from 6 July.
