tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81108151956457586352024-03-13T21:03:08.559-07:001 MINUTE CARICATURESCartoonisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06372807252348670322noreply@blogger.comBlogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8110815195645758635.post-50312656766542429802014-12-14T07:24:00.002-08:002014-12-14T07:25:39.138-08:00FLIGHT 1 MNUTE CARICATURES - COIMBATORE- DELHI - 13.11.2014<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">The waiting lounges in the airports are unlike the railway platforms where myriad faces spattered with drops of sweat of anxiety would pass you by or the bus stations where usually only local people bearing mainly just the known troughs and crests of facial topography wait morosely. The airport lounge would have only smatterings of people but mostly would have gaunt features or faces 'gauntified' by excessive self-im<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;">portance. As a caricaturist gypsy, I was not strange to drawing such chaps too in the airports. But this time, it must have been a sort of record vis a vis the distance crossed/the air time spent . I had drawn 33 but only 25 came out of my ramshackle camera clean.</span></span></div>
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The first one I drew called for immediate execution as he was an unmistakable mix of my Kochi acquaintance, the ferocious public interest litigant, the late Nawab Rajendran and the bachelor local artist of Fort Kochi, Desmond. I had expected dismissing fireworks but the guy was too mellow for a Viswamitra lookalike. He was the Swedish Head of Mutt established by Maharshi Mahesh Yogi and looked after the cultural megashows of the Sect. I enquired about levitation and the bearded ex-engineer from the IIT convulsed into unstoppable laughter. I clarified that of all people in the airport lobby I knew more about body mass and the effects of gravity. "If you are OK with falling down , no harm in levitating", the ripples of laugh echoed everywhere. </div>
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Then, the oozingly sexy girl just sat next to me after an unnecessary round of the lobby stalls and smiled at me in expectation. She had to be smiled back at</div>
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Of the three cabin crew, th<span style="line-height: 1.38;">e fattest and the elderly of the cabin crew invited me to their portion of the plane and the three volunteered one by one. She was a delight to chat with, but that was for half a minute.</span></div>
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I wish all of them clean laughs and long hassle free lives . Hi Ho !</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> <b style="color: #3d85c6;">The Annual Kids Art Camp at Kaladharan's Orthic </b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">(Nanappa Hall), Karikkamury, Kochi has become </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b style="color: #3d85c6;">a pleasant ritual for me over the last 7/8 years and</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b style="color: #3d85c6;">here is what happened today at the pilgrim spot... </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It is a very rare phenomenon that the only senior people available in a camp hall all carry killingly caricaturable faces ! <b>Kaladharan </b>here thrilled at my recounting pathetic </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">sightings of plainest faces at kids' art camps elsewhere.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Ammal</b>, an enthusiastic painter herself and wife of a well-known photography master to many leading photographers in Kerala is all game whenever asked to pose as subject for kids to study</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #b45f06;">Dinesh Shenoy</span></b>, who has married colour Sepia years back can be recreated with any left hand in 2 minutes, <i>Bhava </i>in tact. In fact, pics upto the one below were donated by him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">twin-teeth runs in the family without compromise ..</span></div>
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</div>Cartoonisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06372807252348670322noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8110815195645758635.post-91254531522396439382012-02-06T19:33:00.000-08:002012-02-07T04:17:56.339-08:001 Minute at a painting camp at Fort Kochi<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sunday, the 5th February. Mahatma Gandhi Beach,Fort Kochi. It is 10 O'Clock, morn. The Chinese nets have framed the towering container terminal cranes in the distance. The mangroves in the middle have turned sooty, with the frequent lorry trails to the construction sites in the island emitting high whiffs of earthen coloured dusty smog into the remaining green of the sturdy plants. Somehow, I felt distressed but less compared to the men who were getting less and less surprised with the form and number of fishes found in the net lifted out of water every 10 minutes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">There were some more sturdy, crafty men (no women) of the like of one in the foreground. The lean pleasant faced </span><span style="font-size: large;">twosome on the left of this chap were selling fresh cucumber-pineapple mix dusted with a dash of salt and red chilly powder and this challenger gobbled up two plates in exactly 60 seconds in tune with the fresh Limca branding earned.</span></div>
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</div>Cartoonisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06372807252348670322noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8110815195645758635.post-60560759181797672272012-02-04T17:36:00.000-08:002012-02-04T17:36:41.691-08:001 Minute with the Political Heavyweights !<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;">Very rarely, I come across hardcore politicians, not in secluded corners cadging their caricatures from a hitherto unknown me on the force of their skillfully groomed smiles, but in open forumns in the company of massive numbers of disciples and instant followers. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Kerala Cartoon Academy had set up stall in the Darsana Book Festival going on at Kottayam. Ramesh Chennithala came in royally to the main hall accompanied by Joseph Vazhakkan and the usual unknown local coterie of khadiwallahs. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;">extended silent smile beneath that bush of neatly trimmed black mustache and the two small lines of eyes above that. My friends said, he has a passion for looking fresh in the public and hence a falling for a clutch of cosmetics wherever he goes. But that is anyone's fare these days. What endears him immediately to a stranger is that he is handsome in Kerala style.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;">Chennithala was game enough for a 50 second caricature and he appeared to like that immensely , being one done so quickly. When I shook hand, I felt like holding one of an adolescent who is dead against any kind of physical exercise !</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;">On the contrary, Joseph Vazhakkan's hand almost prodded me into asking the young politico how long he had been in the Gym. In the pic, you can see how he sits before me confident to handle even I happen to turn suddenly adersorial :)</span></div>
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</div>Cartoonisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06372807252348670322noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8110815195645758635.post-38588651663336193092011-12-30T19:43:00.000-08:002012-01-03T07:38:00.443-08:00New Year Greetings 2012 !<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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</div>Cartoonisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06372807252348670322noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8110815195645758635.post-84265479240110842302011-12-21T23:30:00.000-08:002011-12-22T19:35:44.205-08:001 Minute at a Vidyarambham on Vijayadashami day 2011<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This one series that would have made many little people and their doting parents happy just could not be posted in time. I regret that...</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This was done on an impulse seeing coy, struggling to smile cute little kids offering Dakshina just in front of me to their Gurus in Piano, Drums, Guitar, Violin and whatnot at the National School of Music, Ravipuram, Ernakulam, Kochi in Kerala and lying in prostration on the floor at the Gurus' feet. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">This one chap whom I have drawn only thrice in his 11 years </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">at home with me happens to be my only son Siddharth . </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">He is into his 3rd year in Keyboard under his Guru Shri Bijoy, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">a soft-spoken, smiling, courteous young man ....</span> </div>
</div>Cartoonisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06372807252348670322noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8110815195645758635.post-7337864614645122672011-12-21T20:59:00.000-08:002011-12-21T06:56:07.838-08:001 Minute at a startup Insurance Company branch<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;">Lakshmi, coordinator of the newly fangled IndiaFirst Insurance in this area looked little bit upset when I met her at her office. The Childrens' drawing competition had not drawn in even 1/10th of the tots expected. Beaming swashbuckling youngsters but, were hovering around with files in hand and mobile handsets to the ear. It looked as if only Lakshmy was racking her brain on how to pull in kids and their unwilling parents to a contest arena. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;">Later, even after stretching the fare over three days, the net result would be a big disappointment. But, Lakshmi sounded hopeful when she called me again last week. A pleasant, graceful face. That is her forte. I wish her and her team good luck in building business !</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">18/12/2011, Sunday : 1 MINUTE CARICATURES </span><span style="font-size: large;">of three famous people in Fort
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Desmond Rebeiro, the freebird, vinoba bhave-lookalike artist with
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<span style="font-size: large;">Writer KN Shaji, once a pioneer of little magazines (<i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Samkramanam </span></i>et al)</span></div>
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</div>Cartoonisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06372807252348670322noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8110815195645758635.post-73385436192592162972011-12-17T12:45:00.000-08:002011-12-19T18:06:42.259-08:001 Minute at a Marriage Reception<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Marriage day eve. The girl was the daughter of my dear Blogger (in Malayalam) friend writing under the name 'Kaithamullu' (Pineapple thorn). One and a half hours. A wad of 100 drawing sheets. I could finish only 65. When I left at 10pm, I had ensured that there were no whimpering, craving little faces around my seat - a usual phenomenon at small crowds.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Incidentally, this happened to be the biggest marriage I attended in terms of opulence. But a fast caricaturist never never gets to enjoy the gaiety and flashiness of these functions, as he would be too busy bobbing his head up and down between the paper and the face of the subject in front of him, for the 10000th time, @ 10-12 pair of bobs per job, as per international standard .. Hi Ho ! But, history shows that this has never strained my apparently thick but factually non-existent neck ! </span></div>
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</div>Cartoonisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06372807252348670322noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8110815195645758635.post-64455740309745960802011-09-11T06:16:00.001-07:002011-09-11T20:31:35.931-07:001 Minute during Onam2010<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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with 651 CARICATURES in 12 HOURS on 22.08.2010</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">I had mistimed my memoirs on the most memorable caricaturing experience of my life <a href="http://1minutecaricatures.blogspot.com/2011_05_01_archive.html"><b>here</b></a></span> . <span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Now one more Uthratam has come and gone without event. But, some of the people whom I know expected me to come up on the Onam eve with a ritualistic supply of caricatures in a temple precinct. I still do not rue the choice of Thrikkakkara temple last year for the feat. But there were friends of mine who softly suggested a secular spot. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Uthraatappaacchil is
metaphorically the frantic rush made by malayalees for making the
final purchases for kitchen for the great next day- ONAM. Connected to a work ,
it connotes a prolific production of a ware. Hope, no further intro is needed,
in the present context of caricaturing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">But before revealing my
Uthraatappaachil experiences, I thought I would share with you how I grew up
with lines. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">I had a rather colourless
beginning as an art-friendly child. There is no childhood memory for me to
flaunt before the reader like of a recluse but exceptionally imaginative fat
child lost in meditation on fluffy clouds of exotic and untested colours,
sitting amidst a mishmash of scraps of white paper and crayon stubs. No,
nothing colourful was there, of mine alone. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">But there is one I always
remember. That is of my mother proudly but playfully showing me the tracing
paper with the impression of a sparrow printed on the back cover of a 100 page
notebook of my class III. The job had been assigned to my mother as I was too
mesmerized by the magic of the tracing paper to try my hand and also as I must
have been too enept to do it myself. Thus, my mother was the first artist I met
in blood and I adored. Artist Madhava Menon and his nephew, Muralichettan were
the next men with colours I chanced to meet during my summer vacation at
Tripunithura, the small town of temples and music. But that was an year later.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">The small red plastic
watercolour paint box , my father bought from Trichur was the second wonderment. I was just past
11. My Guru Shanthanu had not yet invaded my dreamworld full of broken black
lines to reign there for ever. The
plastic box did not significally
discover the artist in me. But , the man who gifted it did. I still wonder, if
there would be any father like mine , who would have allowed an unskilled boy
dreamer of lines to doodle on the long whitewashed walls of an ancestral house
with broken stubs of charcoal from the
hearth, daring displeasure of his siblings. My father was prophetic,
gifted with an eye to spot the exotic out of the pedestrian things of the
village life, a gift endowed only to those who desperately cherish their kids
would some day, weave meaning out of their most beautifully dreamt dreams. He
had constant failures in life, which, however, did not diminish his trust in
dreaming for me. He died like a withered flower, unsung and not so gloriously
as he deserved. And here, now, I keep on completing each drawing as a tribute
to my fallen hero.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Then, the Emergency came. The
daily news that littered the morning verandah of our century old house - Indian
Express, Illustrated Weekly, the local barber, the villagemen as such, all
reeked of an impending disaster. Per capita cartoon percentage in my college
with the solitary cartoonist doubled with my arrival and I was lost to long
hours of experimentation with different styles of drawing. Nampoothiri of
Kalakaumudi Weekly was the eternal wonder with my being constantly prodded by
his faces finished with flourishes of the slender lines to even guess name and
vocation of the character. Nampoothiri, at that time, meant to me the height of
characterization. For a few months, I
tried accentuation of the shade alone and cross-hatching. Some undiscovered
local characters had already been ‘immortalised’ as caricatures.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">That habit stayed. Months
disappeared before dreary years. A series of personal failures and phobias
followed. I desperately clung to the only ‘thing’ I had – the belief that I had
something to contribute. Deep frustration made
me impatient. My drawings began to be finished without warnings. The
essential grammar was squandered away. My life drifted with the lines I
created. Some disliked them. Many strangers began to smile at me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">In the bygone quarter
century, many many more smiles must have blossomed unseen looking at my
disobedient doodles , so I console myself. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">July, 29, 2010. It was
lunchtime at the neat dining hall at Kerala House, New Delhi. I had hectic evenings the previous two days. The
170 caricature in three and a half hours at the AIFACS gallery and the 120 haul
in two and a half hours at the Delhi Press Club had in a way redeemed the
cartoonist lost in the characterless corridors of the North Block, deep inside
where one of the decisive patrons of my art held court majestically- Shri
S.S.N. Moorthy, Chairman, Central Board of Direct Taxes. I was seeing Delhi for
the first time, invited by my own Department to perform my art on invited
dignitaries in connection with the celebration of the 150<sup>th</sup> year of
the Income Tax in India. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Kerala Cartoon Academy
Secretary Sudheernath and resident organizer in Delhi of a hundred initiatives
back home, sat across me, haggard. He urgently needed somebody to volunteer to
present a programme at Thrikkakkara Temple, the most beloved destination for
the devout during Onam. I casually
suggested a marathon caricaturing session, say 1001, non-stop. Sudheer, the incorrigible
experimenter that he is, immediately got scent of decent mileage to grace the
ailing KCA through a first-time exposition of a truly hilarious art to the
milling non-initiated temple devotees. Still, I stood aloof unsure.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">In hours, Sudheer contacted
the Limca Records office in Delhi and became more emboldened. My plan was to finish 1001, the quickest- in any
case, it would take 18-19 hours. As the Limca norm was said to be i/6/12/24
hours efforts, I stuck to 12 hours, though bit too risky with my urinal and
spinal problems. Now, it was decisive- drawing superfast without pause for 12
hours from 7 am to 7 pm. S/Shri Pramod and Sunilnath, Convenors of the
Thrikkakkara Mahakshetra Committee were put in charge. Sudheer’s local lines
and KCA members were put on alert. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">The stage was the main
concern for me. I desired a quiet kingdom in the centre-stage where I and my
each subject co-existed in peace for a minute undisturbed by any courtiers,
jesters or high priests of doodling or mainstream art. The, Pramod, a seasoned
campaigner who hosted his own event management concern assured me of a design
which I could visualize immediately. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">A day later, when I was asked
by Shri K. Madhavan Nair, my Chief Commissioner in the Income Tax office at
Ernakulam to be part of the discussion on prospects of holding an art
exhibition at Kochi for a few days under a professional curator and with decent
honorarium to the artists, I innocently suggested the marathon caricaturing.
Sponsoring that would guarantee huge publicity to the Department at minimal
cost. Also, the drawing card, thick 300 GSM as usual, bearing a cartoon and
messages of the IT would also be sure meat for mention in the press. The
sagacious CCIT immediately sensed cost-effectiveness. I was promised support
then and there - Stationary support by the Income Tax! I stiil doubt if my
Department has ever before condescended to sponsor an individual’s effort till
date. If not, this is phenomenal thanks an empathising and world-wise
bureaucrat at the helm. The modestly worded slogan on the banners to happen
later ‘</span><i><span style="font-size: 13pt; line-height: 150%;">Income Tax Family
presents our own Cartoon Express</span></i><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">’
was his brainwave. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">The paper was vital. I picked
my favourite, the 300GSM Matt. On one side was printed messages of my
Department and the KCA. The other too carried the same but as a patch
of 2 cm height along the lower ridge. </span><i><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;">Uthratappaachil</span></i><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">in Malayalam was written at
top left diagonally with an embossing effect. Since every second was vital, I
decided my signature in Malayalam with date in the bottom right nook would also
go for printing. Now, I just needed to only
draw ! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">22.08-2010, 6AM. Thrikkakkara
Temple ground. I was seeing the stage where I was to perform for 12 continuous
hours under the spot light, infront of the audience, for the first time. It was
red carpeted, expansive enough for a professional drama troupe. The KCA banner
formed the backdrop with the Income Tax felicitations drawn tight in the sides.
I was not in friendly terms with easel, having adopted the desk & chair
posture since the beginning. But, an easel with paper stuck on it was erected
apparently for adding gravity. I was a bit uneasy. The speaker’s podium in the
corner suggested another avenue for non-stop activity if my bottom becomes
hopelessly flatter due to prolonged sitting in the customary chair. But where
was the chair ? And the table ? Soon, Dinraj and Prashobh were found hauling in
a huge wooden table onto the stage. Great effort ! Soon, a fitting chair would
appear. Then, the one across me and an array of plastic chairs to support my
lighter KCA colleagues. Santhosh from Trichur, a member of the Team
Caricature-Kerala breezed through the bundles of printed paper affixing sl.nos.
in his impeccable hand. Dinraj, adolescent looking Anuraj and Prashobh
complemented him in the side chairs. The bearded ex-journalist turned govt-servant
Jayaraj Vellur added maturity to the last two on seat no.4. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">The air was expectant – but
only to us the KCA team, Pramod, the temple committee Convenor and his deputy,
Adv. Sunilnath. It was already 7.00 am , the scheduled time. Start was coolly
refixed at 7.30. From the centre stage, I looked invitingly at the circumspect
senior citizens and the cynical-looking housewifes about to disappear into the
temple. The mahouts of the same coloured elephants and the sunken-eyed,
wiry-framed Melam (percussion) artistes who moved closer and closer to the
stage displayed more readiness to spot native humour, probably having travelled
far and wide along with the pachyderms. One of them simply glinted his
innumerable teeth at me ! I began to think in terms of these Ambalavaasi (
temple-dependents) line. But their number was hopelessuy small ! At a distance,
sat a group of youngsters half-hearted to volunteer. It was 7.20. We were still
in shock. A steady flow of subjects was out of question. Meanwhile, I had
beckoned two grey-bearded gentry spotted at a distance, both wonderful
specimens finishable inside of 50 seconds. But they perfectly enacted physical
disability- 80% & above sight and hearing impairment. They too had a slant
to get tested. But, something held them back. From the corner of the backdrop,
my wife and son looked at their hapless fatso sadly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Frustrated, I suggested 8 o’
clock but relented to come down to 7.45 seeing Sudheernath going into usual
tantrums. Then, Prasannan, the KCA Chairman bargained to chip off 5 more
minutes as 7.45 was known to be notorious for non-starters. Soon, the decision
was flashed. Pramod screamed into the god-knows-where mike- The programme will
start at 7.40 bang ! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">The traditional lamp appeared
from nowhere. The KCA office-bearers and the local organizers lined up as if in a national integration
tableau. For the first ever time in my rather timid life, I lighted up a lamp,
first. The Temple Committee senior, my singer wife ritualistically hand-touched
by my son Siddharth and finally KCA Chairman, Presannan lighted the other
wicks, in turn. It was finally 7.40 am. From behind, Lekha sang an auspicious
couplet , while Siddharth sat across me with shy trepidation unable to bear the
importance bestowed on him by the spot lights and my friends. In 25 seconds,
the compassionate little round face that I had kissed a thousand times was
finished. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">A small train of temple
committee members chugged on towards me as if responding to my silent SOS. A
couple of mahouts and unemployed youth trailed them. But I was feeling uneasy.
I had not yet fallen into that rut of self-sure ease. After the first ten
subjects, suddenly I began to feel my confidence ebbing away. Do the faces of
the cartoonists zooming in above me reflect disapproval of my usual flourishes
with the chiseled marker ? I could not
at all read cartoonist and parttime snake-catcher, Surendran Vaarachaal whom I
used to glance when in tight spots. My God! Where are the caricaturist’s
delights I spotted in the crowd ? Was I losing grip over the situation ?
Moments later, Surendran pepped me up with a short soft word I now do not
remember. I decided to go on a binge, come what may. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Now, looking at the photos of
those subjects posing with their caricatures, I feel that Surendran’s assessment
was correct. There was no major cause for concern. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">The first hour produced
exactly 60 caricatures. But I should have been taking only 40 seconds per
caricature. My idea to shorten length of the body, which was for me, one and a
half times of the face could not be worked as the body language would have been
terribly compromised. That never thrilled me. I decided to stay put. Nothing at
the cost of below the face. But then, I got scent of the result to come. It is
not going to touch 675 even as the later hours would find my grip strainful.
This was the estimate given to the Chairman and Secretary, KCA , as well when
all this kicked off. That crowd-puller
1001 had come up when it was decided I would pull on beyond 12 hours. The
number was flashed in a hurry. In the press conference, however, I took bail
that I would not be and none of you (pressmen) be dejected if I don’t touch
1001. Only one paper carried the plea. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Intermittently, small nuclear
families came and passed me in minutes, with at least one in each lot, posing a
caricaturist’s eternal terror. Featureless men and women , sometimes even
families as such kept on terrorizing me frequently. Then, a punkish boy or a
senior citizen would all of a sudden appear as if to jazz me up. Down the queue,
one more Mr. Plainface whom many a caricaturist and artist cursed away over the
years to eternal perdition would then be glancing at me with suppressed mischief. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">At times, a VIP, Sudheernath
cleverly and magically too, tugs along would grimace at me from across the
table. S/Shri Benny Behanan and P.Babu, MLAs as politicians, Janardanan, Vinu
Mohan, Govindankutty and Ponnamma Babu from the film formed this category and
of course added more sparkle to the stage. Of this Janardanan and Ponnamma Babu
had not yet spoken to Sudheernath but only heard him so far, only once in their
lifetime- that too just half an hour back ! Such a magnetic pull which
sometimes provoked Sudheer to contemplate setting up an Ashram within the GCDA
limits. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Two times Presannan hissed in
my ears to speed up perhaps he too much believed in 1001 as he did me. The
non-stop doodling had, by that time, already set my standard. Body length could
not have been shortened. Speed was fair enough. So, 1001 will be the sure
casualty. Presannan, more mature and my fellow-traveller in cartooning since
the </span><i><span style="font-size: 13pt; line-height: 150%;">cartoon kalari</span></i><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";"> days of the early 1980s
laughed softly. A few steps away, Sudheer was already smelling 1001. To my
Siddharth, how many times have I referred Sudheer as the paradigm of perseverance
in spite of not so great resources in hand ! I am sincerely concerned about the
future of this man as an artist and otherwise, who always baulks to recommend
himself for a safe landing before the heavyweights he knows in Delhi. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">In the side desk, Santhosh,
Dinraj, Prashobh, Anuraj ,Surendran and Jayaraj beside me were doing great work
silently and without recess, skipping lunch to declare solidarity with me. They
were doing the cardinal work. A team like them should be the benchmark for
support team on stage for any future attempts by anybody in the KCA.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">At times, cartoonists
themselves posed before me. If Santhosh and Dinraj did that to save me from
face-drought, my gurus Toms, Yesudasan and Seeri did that as </span><i><span style="font-size: 13pt; line-height: 150%;">anugraha</span></i><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";"> on one of their finds in the
1983 Kothamangalam camp. Yesudasan Sir’s grandson, just past his second month
on earth was the youngest I drew and the oldest was….</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">The oldest had floored me at
first sight. Here was the caricaturist’s eternal delight and the primer on
facial features ! A very short, thin framed, toothless lady sporting a big </span><i><span style="font-size: 13pt; line-height: 150%;">Rudraksha</span></i><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";"> chain had been appreciating
my drawings from behind my back for more than 10 minutes. Sometimes, she would
speak out her observations on my performance too loudly for endorsement from
Surendran and other cartoonists. She had come on her own, pulled in by the
casual gaiety happening on the stage. The lady was allotted next chance, out of
turn. In less than 50 seconds, she was finished. Then happened the breathtaking
action. The 94 year old lady laughed at the card loudly and broke into an
ecstatic dance in full glare of the audience below. This lasted for 5 minutes !
After the programme, I suggested to Presannan that her video clipping posted
onto the websites and blogs of all members should serve as icon of the success
story that is KCA. She was Ananthalakshmy, the Carnatic vocalist who had
performed minutes back in the other stage, once a co-singer of the legendary MS
Subbalakshmy !</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Another memorable occasion
was when the jubba clad bearded young man came. I asked- Artsit ? No, a farmer
from Muvattupuzha. No way you are an ordinary farmer… An organic farmer, he
chuckled. Here, I added some grass around his naked feet. The man disappeared
without event. But when the show ended, Thomas was waiting for me with 3 meter
long </span><i><span style="font-size: 13pt; line-height: 150%;">mullappoo</span></i><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";"> garland and a prolonged hug.
Only a farmer like him could have come up with such an expression! Thanks my
dear friend, for adding to my faith in living.</span></div>
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7.40 pm, 12 hours after the word ‘go’, the last subject (651th)</div>
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poses relaxed - my own singer-wife , Lekha.R.Nair.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">Came night. 7.40 pm. Amidst
mike announcements, the show ended on time. No clapping was there let alone
lifting me up by admirers, which was unthinkable as most of the younger breed
of cartoonists like Jayaraj and Prashobh were dangerously underweight due to reasons other than malnourishment. I got
up. I was not tired at all but for difficulty in stretching my fingers of the
drawing hand. My good cartoonist friends on stage shook hands with me. Amongst
them, Baluchettan who too had guided me in the 1983-84 camps. Behind me and the
cartoonists stood my wife who added grace through mellifluous rendering of a few
Onam songs. That was enough. I felt immensely fortunate. By my Guru’s grace,
thought of </span><i><span style="font-size: 13pt; line-height: 150%;">record</span></i><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";"> had never tainted my mind
during my performance. I was my usual self, always aware that I was fallible,
prone to the silliest of mistakes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">For 12 hours I did not feel
hunger or desire to visit toilet in spite of an aggravating urinary complaint.
My old masters of the 1983 KCA camp S/Shri Toms, Yesudasan, PBV Krishnan,
Seeri, Nathan and Balu were present almost throughout the show. I always amused
silently at the great luck that these masters and their disciple remain healthy
and alive after close to 30 years to smile at each other. Only, a long-promised engagement by Sukumar
sir at Trivandrum affected me and </span><i><span style="font-size: 13pt; line-height: 150%;">Chirivarayarangu</span></i><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">
which had to be aborted in the absence of this deadly cracker of a story
teller. Otherwise, everything went off like clock work. All were happy , even
silently jubilant. I could feel Thrikkarayappan’s pervading Grace…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">In the end, 651 was The
number. 1001 was slowly receding into oblivion. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif";">IMAGES of THE day <a href="http://cartoonacademy.blogspot.com/2010/08/uthradapoachhhhhhhhhiiiiiiiiiilllllllll.html"><b style="color: blue;">HERE</b></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">When Kaladharan mentioned this meeting a month back, I never
knew that the gathering that was to happen today would be so diligently devoted
to old memories. There was the crowd listening to each veteran raking up an
unsung anecdote or a devastating joke of those ancient times, that ran around in the inner circles but
soon turned out to be dud due to overuse. The dames were there, fortunately, looking
benign and as if none ever read some horribly heavy-worded art reviews some of
their own kind churn out . But, most of them ignored a fat man sitting at the
nook because perhaps the nook was mobbed by latecomer males pining for a seat,
or paying attention to my side would be sure bet to bombarding with another
latecomer strutting up to negotiate the curve to the hall at the end of the last
flight of steps. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Yes, no other lady volunteered before me except two beautiful women, One was Lalitha, my wife's teacher of Art of Living sadhanas. And the other one was perching up the stairwell that thrust out to the hall from up. She, surprisingly,introduced herself as Anthropological student or something. No wonder she took up the challenge to observe the observer from too close. Thank you, madams :) </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And I was balancing at the end of the plastic chair maintaining
my torso at the same angle of the first two legs of the plastic chair, taking
care not to shatter it. I had smashed one such to subatomic particles three
years back and Kaladharan’s that </span><span style="font-size: large;"> month’s
budget kissed dust. Everafter, I only used to stand and talk whenever at Orthic.
Partly due to respect to this bearded man who helped with the hanging boards
during my only caricature exhibition at my office 11 years back. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">These men and women knew Kalapeetham, its Masters and
Kaladharan much more than I. As one speaker said, each of them is a wonderful
treasurehouse of unique experiences. I salute all of them alike because I
always felt that the artists among them might be a wee bit slower in
caricatures compared to this writer but then they must be infinitely surer of the depth
and flow of the lines and curves they meditate on, on paper and stone and
whatnot ! In spite of the fact that a cartoonist’s sensibility is different
from a painter’s.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I always wondered how would I caricature Budha coming across
my path, who left behind no trace of an impression. I keep on wondering how a
painter visualizes colour and lines.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Please see the relics of my mind at Orthic. The camera
repeatedly played truant in the absent light in my nook and I had to do a bit of clean up of caricatures displayed by my
subjects, for clarity. I know, that is below the artistic belt. Please pardon. </span></div>
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Ramesan, Sculptor</div>
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Anna Sudhi, Film Director, Photographer</div>
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Sivaraman, Nature lover</div>
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Mathew Thomas alias Mundakkan, Farmer</div>
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Sivadasan, artist</div>
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Dr.Joy, Sculptor too..</div>
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Shibu, Painter</div>
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Jazz, Painter-Sculptor</div>
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Shafeeq, Sculptor, Terracota specialist</div>
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Vidyan, Photographer, Designer</div>
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Shihab, Artist</div>
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Thankachan CT, Newsreader</div>
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Shanthi Balachandran, Anthropologist</div>
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Adv. Abraham, Artist</div>
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Ashraf, Contractor</div>
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Jacob Varghese (Mariamma), Writer</div>
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Lalitha, Instructor, Art of Living</div>
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Thomas, Sound Specialist, AIR</div>
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Marian, Writer</div>
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George Joseph, Writer</div>
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Unnikrishna Menon, Handwriting Specialist</div>
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Sudhi Koyyode, Dramatist</div>
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Rammohan Paliyath, Blogger & Asst. Editor, Dhanam</div>
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Binuraj, Artist and Documentary Director</div>
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PA Krishnakumar</div>
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Sujith, Artist and Teacher</div>
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Dr. Babu Thaliath, Professor, Cambridge University</div>
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Adv, Jaison Bastin Louis, Sculptor</div>
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Prof. CS Jayaram, Painter, Sculptor</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Local artist of Kochi, Kaladharan is alarmingly shedding weight ! From the 100+ that he was when in his element, what a slip that was ! Something that should have graced ME instead with all my pious wishes over a dozen years to get reduced without sporting a smear of sweat.. :(((</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> The homely couple on way back from the Siva Temple. The inauguration of the exquisite stone-lookalike pencil finishes of goddesses was this time on Dinesh Shenoy, the recreator of heritage buildings in monochromatic sepia . But, once the bald man entered, suddenly it was his job. Kaladharan lighted all the wicks, snuffed the flame out and rekindled it, ritually. Dinesh never knew that sacred pattern, neither me or anybodyelse in-outside the gallery. Now, Dinesh will have to wait for that rare turn to be getting invited to inaugurate. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">He appeared clueless, dejected...forlorn </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">like a heritage building...! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Kids among you, study this pose. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">This is the standard pose I, like any international counterpart of mine , am continuously being compelled to adopt before stoic or phlegmatic or shifting or smile-less faces of 80% of the blokes sitting before me. At that time, my pefectly round face would have broadened alarmingly without any immediate chance of return to normalcy. This is the time to pounce on my subjects because only those seasoned campaigners from smileless families of long pedigree would still refuse to buckle. But, by providence, this segment forms only 3.78637% of the total caricature seekers. So, I pull off easily. Then, my bulk acts as the buffer ensuring a smirk from my subjects. Altogether, no season is bad for me :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The doctor from Amrita Hospital was among the first.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I thanked him publicly for carrying this face.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Even more deadly was Kaladharan's second son, umpteen times my model at the kids' camps at his house. I felt like crying for joy for getting two killer faces in 2 minutes, that too one after the other .</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sreekanth, the show was his. Pencil sketches of Bhagawans and Bhagawatis. He uses just 8B for shading. Repeated soft gracing on the paper will render the pic that stone-sculpted look.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Francis master, a great art teacher of the islands and Guru of the artist in the limelight, Bose Krishnamachari . Always sports a smile. His resembance with a former state minister is so much that the artist gets fidgety if he fails to hit the usual quota of a dozen acknowledgements from strangers </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Another deadly face. Wafts about in the atmosphere. So light !</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I continue to be jealous of his neck. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> local man..</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">another one</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">followed by this young boy having a bit of music in him</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">the girl was never seen speaking a word..</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The cameraman of the local TV channel came late</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">My first fisherman in Ernakulam :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">but not the first TV reporter</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">neither the first hotel boy</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">or the hotel 'muthalaali'</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have murdered Jayanth, the gallery owner, twice before</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The never say die Dinesh Shenoy, the apostle of monochromatic sepia in Kerala</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Dinesh's son is so keen to take after his father that he has already started remaining bathless for days together, as per the age old prescription for great artists.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Amongst the gallery owner and four local artists..</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Ajith, artist-businessman</span></div>
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Cartoonisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06372807252348670322noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8110815195645758635.post-1457630351423376152011-08-06T02:11:00.000-07:002011-08-06T18:43:41.350-07:001 Minute at an art gallery in Kochi<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: large;">When I opened the door at 7am
in my government quarters, there stands the compulsive cyclist of an artist,
apolegetically snuggled to the wall, armed with that disarming smile - <a href="http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.101669229869374.3798.100000788928575"><b><span style="color: #b45f06;">Dinesh R Shenoy</span></b></a> again – that incomparable craftsman of monumental buildings in
monochromatic sepia ! For statistical purpose, had to invite the Fort Kochi
artist who was already in and about to be seated on the dining chair.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: large;">I have drawn Dinesh twice
earlier and posted down here. But the two you see here were to amuse my deaf, chronically
asthmatic AMMA who I could see struggling these days to get out of the trauma
of the death of her elder sister, of whom she hoped to become neighbour one beautiful day. Just 2
minutes, and I could make her smile once again at my scribble pad.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: large;">I always remind my
Siddharth to take care to nudge to his grandma....touch her...and if he can, smile at
her while she goes through the obituary columns in the newspaper because she is
going through something terrible that millions of old people like her anywhere in
this world never wish to share with anybody. I could see my mother heaving
heavily while struggling to balance on her weak limbs onway to the kitchen to
make coffee for her son's friend.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: large;">No one can explain breath
better than an asthmatic....</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: large;">drawings of Dinesh hung in
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: large;">Perhaps, this simple looking young man would be the
pathbreaker to that gallery culture where in you could </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: large;">shop for
originals worth from Rs.100 to 1,00,000. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: large;">The
owner of the teashop next to the smallest gallery perhaps in the whole of
Kerala. In 20 minutes, I would cajole the 'boy' who brought the black tea with
his caricature, futher unsettling the standoff between the bourgeoisie
hotel owner and the younger prolet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: large;">This Infopark engineer with kid in
arms who passed by was the first to volunteer. By reflex, I ran my fingers through
the back of my head. There was a time when the comb refused to proceed further
through the dense black forest. I looked at the young man again with envy but
then the baby gave me hope.. HiHo !</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: large;">Come to Netteppadam Road across Govt.
Girls HS, Ernakulam and you will find this effervescent SRK lookalike, more
SRKish if he chooses not to bare teeth. Beneath the half a dozen layers of
knitwear lies a panicky, intensely deep prayer invoking the Gods of 6 to 8 packs
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: large;">Typical trade street fare this. Here
is a helper from the neraby </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: large;">Ayurvedic pharmacy. The red smear in
the forehead has been </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: large;">correctly positioned to square off the
villainy on the face :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: large;">The traditional cap donned by this
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: large;">One of the thousands of insecure
drivers in the city. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: large;">He was so eager to show the surprise to his kids, </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: large;">An official in the government
furniture store. The pefectionist cut short his smile seeing the 'thing' to the right, my 5 second
furniture that I decided to display before signing off.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: large;">The cricket fanatic boy watched by </span><br />
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shy mother from a distance...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: large;">then, the travel agent..</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: large;">next, the clerk in the courier agency...</span></div>
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teastall owner we met earlier..</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: large;">My predecided 20 minutes was about to
be finished. I had announced, just 2 more, I would be going .... I
had forgotten to ask the vocation of the chap. Just seated him in the most unstable
wooden bench I created in recent times..</span></div>
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gallery owner. I only wish he learns the trade of packing </span>his wares the earliest. His son <span style="font-size: small;">(below) </span>whom
I drew on the inaugural day might </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: large;">one day </span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: large;">save his father from debts with
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: large;">The hotel'boy' I referred earlier
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: large;">which would be
any caricaturists instant delicacy. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">2 days back... </span></span></div>
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Dines chose 'me' as most suited to fill the smallest gallery<br />
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Akkado Mikkado or whatever, the offeseason tourist who relented while casually ushered in by the artist</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">17.07.2011, Evening, Chennai Express.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: large;">Onway to Chennai to attend a 2 day training at the Direct Taxes Regional Training Institute (DTRTI). The Caricature <i>Yagna </i>started on a quiet note with a Kerala High Court advocate and a retired Coimbatore based airforce pilot volunteering.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><b><u>DTRTI, CHENNAI</u></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Dhoni lookalike, swashbuckling batsman in the Departmental cricket matches was the course </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">co-ordinator. Had to be chased to cadge a sitting</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The first session was handled by </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">this veteran of the Judicial matters.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This handsome officer insisted that I meet </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Sreekanth (below), the Dy. Commissioner, </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">more known for his cartooning skills.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and Sreekanth, too young for a DCIT says that </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">his teeth forms the caricature USP.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This officer would chase me for a second </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">try having 'misplaced' the first one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sampath Kumar, once Asst. Director (Investigation) </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">at Palghat was only a telephonic voice until ...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This eco-friendly colleague even had a bundle of files to fall down with deadly report in sync with her walk to the well of the hall to receive participation certificate. She and the two below formed the female counterparts of this blogger in girth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I rue how I messed up the drawing. The standing</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">20.07.2011. Lunch recess. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">And the 3 volunteers (below)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This handsome appeared to be the most </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">in all the fingers and beaded, studded </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">amulets wound round and round and rou....</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Dilip Warrier, the only Chartered Accountant </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">is all game whenever I try his Achuthanandanesque</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> square shoulder, stoop and the narrow ridge below </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">the nose dense with black stubs...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Same case with plump Paul Jawahar. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">This long time my competitor in BMI with the </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This officer, quizzically, let his caricature </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">in spite of rescue warnings given time to time...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Happily, second time on Anandkumar, ACIT.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I need to retry my next man, 90kg, in the hall...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">generated comment after comment of 24 carat humour</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Shaji P. Jacob, a perpetual smiler by default </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">and Addl. Director remains the perfectionist </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">6.30 pm. The Hindu. My long time friend Keshav, editorial cartoonist and a Kerala Cartoon Academy sympathiser was about to scan his drawing for next day's edition into the computer after last minute colouring. Next day at the guest house, I could not help smiling at an inside page of the Hindu</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Ended my Chennai life with a sumptuous meal at this prolific Tamil-Malayalam cartoonist, Peter of Dinamalar Daily.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">My last murderous attempt was on this senior citizen, Ramachandran, Retd. Airforce guy and President, Valanjambalam Temple Committee, Ernakulam.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">These 50 pictures were made at the venue of the Malayali <b>Bloggers Meet</b> held in Hotel Mayura Park, Ernakulam on 11.07.2011. This kind of ritualistic production has become indispensable part of all bloggers meet held in <b>Kerala</b>, the southernmost State of <b>India</b>. so much so that I am getting much more visitors at these venues than in my twin properties, <a href="http://keralahahaha.blogspot.com/"><b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">KeralaHaHaHa</span> </b></a>and <a href="http://ooneswarampo.blogspot.com/" style="background-color: black; color: #6aa84f;"><b>OooneswaramPO</b></a> taken together over a weeks time . Also, most of the subjects take the caricatures to their webpages and joints like Facebook and now Google+.</span> </div>
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-r6m3kHdX_bE/ThkAR91wr-I/AAAAAAAAFRo/rjwxuuUTRZE/s1600/IMG_2664.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5627529518033973218" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-r6m3kHdX_bE/ThkAR91wr-I/AAAAAAAAFRo/rjwxuuUTRZE/s400/IMG_2664.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 324px;" /></a><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span id="6_TRN_19">The youngest attendee, ANJALI (</span></span>അഞ്ജലി )<span style="font-size: 100%;"><span id="6_TRN_19"> is struggling to cross her STD IX at school. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;"><span id="6_TRN_19">Beat me simply at the Ice Cream Eating in stealth competition , 9:4</span></span><span id="6_TRN_1b"><span id="6_TRN_2n"><span id="6_TRN_4p"> !</span></span></span><br />
<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-IGzsXxihP9I/ThkALKe-_EI/AAAAAAAAFRY/daIk6pQQzTg/s1600/IMG_2666.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5627529401169017922" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-IGzsXxihP9I/ThkALKe-_EI/AAAAAAAAFRY/daIk6pQQzTg/s400/IMG_2666.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 292px;" /></a>This Gramsci namesake, SAMSHI
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<span id="6_TRN_1b">adopted red hoping for more colours from te other side.. :( </span><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-faUbVDMbKeo/Thj_hoGhSwI/AAAAAAAAFQI/p5-IEC7yl0k/s1600/IMG_2677.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5627528687564966658" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-faUbVDMbKeo/Thj_hoGhSwI/AAAAAAAAFQI/p5-IEC7yl0k/s400/IMG_2677.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 300px;" /></a><span id="6_TRN_1b">SANDEEP PAMPALLY (സാന്ദീപ് പാമ്പള്ളി)</span></div>
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SANTHOSH ( സന്തോഷ് )</div>
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SHIBU PHILIP (ഷിബു ഫിലിപ്പ്)</div>
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the only representative of the armed forces. </div>
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-oCq2ZISlbUU/Thj_SkZ-9fI/AAAAAAAAFPg/LEEcvRwou4M/s1600/IMG_2682.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5627528428874823154" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-oCq2ZISlbUU/Thj_SkZ-9fI/AAAAAAAAFPg/LEEcvRwou4M/s400/IMG_2682.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 288px;" /></a><span id="6_TRN_1b">VANTIPRAANTHAN (വണ്ടിപ്രാന്തന് )</span><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--1Ydvjpq0d0/Thj_Sa8trUI/AAAAAAAAFPY/Xn-BDej1VTg/s1600/IMG_2685.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5627528426336136514" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--1Ydvjpq0d0/Thj_Sa8trUI/AAAAAAAAFPY/Xn-BDej1VTg/s400/IMG_2685.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 278px;" /></a><span style="font-size: 100%;">Einstein - Sivarama Karanth lookalike, retired School master, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">REGHUNATHAN (രഘുനാഥന് </span>കെ.വി.) </div>
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CQrFNf8xTAM/Thj_SSwNMbI/AAAAAAAAFPQ/dFdygmsUnA8/s1600/IMG_2686.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5627528424136192434" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CQrFNf8xTAM/Thj_SSwNMbI/AAAAAAAAFPQ/dFdygmsUnA8/s400/IMG_2686.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 270px;" /></a><span id="6_TRN_1b">KERALADASANUNNI (കേരളദാസനുണ്ണി) from Palghat</span> <a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xktW4yxW-go/Thj_SADLpeI/AAAAAAAAFPI/c1FrllqWVLo/s1600/IMG_2687.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5627528419115509218" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xktW4yxW-go/Thj_SADLpeI/AAAAAAAAFPI/c1FrllqWVLo/s400/IMG_2687.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 336px;" /></a><span id="6_TRN_1b">JIKKU VARGHESE (ജിക്കു വര്ഗീസ്), the youngest of the organisers</span></div>
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-c-J9ZHp9ydo/Thj_TIWafLI/AAAAAAAAFPo/F9KQJaE5lyk/s1600/IMG_2681.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5627528438523526322" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-c-J9ZHp9ydo/Thj_TIWafLI/AAAAAAAAFPo/F9KQJaE5lyk/s400/IMG_2681.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 312px;" /></a><span id="6_TRN_1b"><span id="6_TRN_2n">KARNNOR (കാര്ന്നോര് ) means old man of the house</span></span><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ffpr_n59Chs/Thj_D4KgHeI/AAAAAAAAFO4/uY2LGN7oDko/s1600/IMG_2689.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5627528176480558562" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ffpr_n59Chs/Thj_D4KgHeI/AAAAAAAAFO4/uY2LGN7oDko/s400/IMG_2689.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 284px;" /></a> <span id="6_TRN_1b"><span id="6_TRN_2n">YOUSUFA( യൂസഫ്പ ), another stock prsence in blogmeets in Kochi </span></span></div>
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1EkgL7segPE/Thj_DfeFZoI/AAAAAAAAFOw/FJ6fJV9X_7Y/s1600/IMG_2690.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5627528169851807362" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1EkgL7segPE/Thj_DfeFZoI/AAAAAAAAFOw/FJ6fJV9X_7Y/s400/IMG_2690.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 274px;" /></a><span id="6_TRN_1b"><span id="6_TRN_2n">REJI MALAYALAPPUZHA (റെജി മലയാലപ്പുഴ ) </span></span><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Bk5i2wuvxxA/Thj_DSRVvZI/AAAAAAAAFOo/pwX-loydrPs/s1600/IMG_2692.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5627528166308691346" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Bk5i2wuvxxA/Thj_DSRVvZI/AAAAAAAAFOo/pwX-loydrPs/s400/IMG_2692.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 291px;" /></a><span id="6_TRN_1b"><span id="6_TRN_2n">ANOOP (അനൂപ്)</span></span><br />
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MUNEER (മുനീർ) (തൂതപ്പുഴയോരം) </div>
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XJvKrcZKCcM/Thj_EJ_zRgI/AAAAAAAAFPA/xiKHr7LFzI0/s1600/IMG_2688.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5627528181267514882" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XJvKrcZKCcM/Thj_EJ_zRgI/AAAAAAAAFPA/xiKHr7LFzI0/s400/IMG_2688.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 272px;" /></a><span id="6_TRN_1b"><span id="6_TRN_2n">PONMALAKKARAN (പൊന്മളക്കാരന് ) </span></span><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8nmvCQ0Pi5s/Thj-2_P8GVI/AAAAAAAAFOQ/NlQ8HZpcCaw/s1600/IMG_2697.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5627527955044112722" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8nmvCQ0Pi5s/Thj-2_P8GVI/AAAAAAAAFOQ/NlQ8HZpcCaw/s400/IMG_2697.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 280px;" /></a><span id="6_TRN_1b"><span id="6_TRN_2n">KUSUMAKUMARI (കുസുമകുമാരി)</span></span></div>
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GAcTO7SYsZs/Thj-2hsWVLI/AAAAAAAAFOI/TBTXH6bsnIc/s1600/IMG_2698.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5627527947110208690" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GAcTO7SYsZs/Thj-2hsWVLI/AAAAAAAAFOI/TBTXH6bsnIc/s400/IMG_2698.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 283px;" /></a><span id="6_TRN_1b"><span id="6_TRN_2n">SUNDARI(</span></span><span id="6_TRN_1b"><span id="6_TRN_2n">സുന്ദരി</span></span><span id="6_TRN_1b"><span id="6_TRN_2n">) , w/o Keraladasanunni</span></span><span id="6_TRN_1b"><span id="6_TRN_2n"></span></span></div>
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This spiritually inclined, KUMARAN Senior, a disciple of<br />
Karunakara Guru of Santhigiri Ashram, Pothencode</div>
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<img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5627527941053263826" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-t352oldJag4/Thj-2LIQr9I/AAAAAAAAFN4/OU8XsFerufg/s400/IMG_2702.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 280px;" /> The only anonymous participant. A mix of brawn and br..awn again :)</div>
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pEwfZqd8Xt4/Thj-3EruqkI/AAAAAAAAFOY/mfB_ndQT2PI/s1600/IMG_2694.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5627527956502850114" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pEwfZqd8Xt4/Thj-3EruqkI/AAAAAAAAFOY/mfB_ndQT2PI/s400/IMG_2694.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 300px;" /></a><span id="6_TRN_1b"><span id="6_TRN_2n">PUNYALAN ( പുണ്യാളന് ), photographer and traveller</span></span><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-YH-iVWdP8lw/Thj-d9_WeQI/AAAAAAAAFNo/gfdAYq1D_ik/s1600/IMG_2704.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5627527525209372930" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-YH-iVWdP8lw/Thj-d9_WeQI/AAAAAAAAFNo/gfdAYq1D_ik/s400/IMG_2704.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 276px;" /></a><span id="6_TRN_1b"><span id="6_TRN_2n">ARussian touch at last ! DIMITRO (ദിമിത്രോ) </span></span></div>
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MAHESH (മഹേഷ് ചെറുതന)</div>
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ANOOP KUMAR (അനൂപ് കുമാർ )</div>
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SHIBU PHILIP (ഷിബു ഫിലിപ്പ് )</div>
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SAMSHI, again ... <a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-p5xvSMEeH-U/Thj-M1DYKmI/AAAAAAAAFMw/2H4C83epdAg/s1600/IMG_2712.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5627527230752565858" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-p5xvSMEeH-U/Thj-M1DYKmI/AAAAAAAAFMw/2H4C83epdAg/s400/IMG_2712.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 323px;" /></a><span id="6_TRN_1b"><span id="6_TRN_2n">REJI P. VARGHESE (റെജി പി വര്ഗീസ് )</span></span></div>
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JOSANTONY (ജോസാന്റണി ), poet</div>
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<span id="6_TRN_1b"><span id="6_TRN_2n">MATHAPP (മത്താപ്പ് ). Below : another essential pose.</span></span></div>
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SHINOJ (ഷിനോജ്)</div>
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<img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5627526649281215250" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-es_YqA9EowE/Thj9q-5zexI/AAAAAAAAFLw/bhE-E-LhBr4/s400/IMG_2721.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 324px;" />JACOB RAJAN (ജേക്കബ് രാജന് ) </div>
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<span id="6_TRN_1b"><span id="6_TRN_2n">MAHESH VIJAYAN (മഹേഷ് വിജയന് )</span></span></div>
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ALEX dropped in out of curiosity</div>
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VmooPoGybaQ/Thj9qfgCnEI/AAAAAAAAFLY/CfYqBItHtAc/s1600/IMG_2724.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5627526640851655746" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VmooPoGybaQ/Thj9qfgCnEI/AAAAAAAAFLY/CfYqBItHtAc/s400/IMG_2724.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 300px;" /></a><span id="6_TRN_1b"><span id="6_TRN_2n">SONIA ELIZABETH PATAMATAN (സോണിയ എലിസബത്ത് പടമാടന് ),</span></span></div>
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<span id="6_TRN_1b"><span id="6_TRN_2n">the thinnest and counterpart of Mathapp </span></span><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eWIfd4HqGjk/Thj9rdY13hI/AAAAAAAAFL4/jePzFmId9Pw/s1600/IMG_2720.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5627526657464458770" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eWIfd4HqGjk/Thj9rdY13hI/AAAAAAAAFL4/jePzFmId9Pw/s400/IMG_2720.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 341px;" /></a><span id="6_TRN_1b"><span id="6_TRN_2n">ARUN KAYAMKULAM (അരുണ് കായംകുളം), the famous author</span></span></div>
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<span id="6_TRN_1b"><span id="6_TRN_2n">Kayamkulam Superfast, a hilarious collection of anecdotes</span></span></div>
Cartoonisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06372807252348670322noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8110815195645758635.post-6712238753938274592011-07-03T20:37:00.000-07:002011-07-04T10:14:50.121-07:001 Minute at Kuttanad<div style="text-align: center; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size:130%;">All these grown up years, I had a desire to see 'Kuttanad', the paddy cellar of Kerala. Yesterday, I realised it when Kerala Cartoon Academy in association with Heartlight Association arranged a boat yatra from Kumarakom to Kuttanad, Master cartoonist, Tom's birth place. I have to state that the backwaters, <span style="font-style: italic;">Karimeen </span>on the boat were normal fare and poor inducements. But the emasculated, muscular, slender upper-bodied countrymen (I rarely saw a woman outside!) and school boys were great sights. A turn around at the boating and those non-smiling lovable creatures...<br /></span></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5DvkuNhBAag/ThHpTNgIpjI/AAAAAAAAFGA/5-6qgouPFCg/s1600/3333.jpg"><br /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eC_ZL5L71vs/ThE4Lm1S2fI/AAAAAAAAFFw/ujRikW6iWYo/s1600/IMG_2594.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 232px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eC_ZL5L71vs/ThE4Lm1S2fI/AAAAAAAAFFw/ujRikW6iWYo/s320/IMG_2594.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5625339181616257522" border="0" /></a>KL Mohana Varma, Novelist was caught soon after his unsuccessful try<br />to reach Tom's ancestral home , which was just '1 km near' to the local rafter<br />but turned out to be minimum 30 minutes brisk walk by the side<br />of endless flooded single crop paddy fields ...<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wrB7Ntrpyjw/ThE4LqjWRwI/AAAAAAAAFFo/T0A1Rbf1LeI/s1600/IMG_2558.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wrB7Ntrpyjw/ThE4LqjWRwI/AAAAAAAAFFo/T0A1Rbf1LeI/s320/IMG_2558.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5625339182614726402" border="0" /></a>The first flourish to demarcate Cartoonist (Kerala Kaumudi)<br />TK Sujith's top of the head had ended in fiasco and I knew that<br />this tough-bodied, music-minded chap is going to look much<br />more hyper-calorific. Immediately,<br />I wanted to do a standby but my friend swore on this...<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-012e8bnWWWo/ThE4LYZ26PI/AAAAAAAAFFg/5oxuqxDt50U/s1600/IMG_2557.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-012e8bnWWWo/ThE4LYZ26PI/AAAAAAAAFFg/5oxuqxDt50U/s320/IMG_2557.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5625339177743083762" border="0" /></a>Rakesh Ansera, the reticent school-drawing master and<br />an Alleppeyite himself had stark features so much<br />so that even a half perfectly done eyes would clinch him on paper.<br />One of the newest members of the Kerala Cartoon Academy.<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OojhgnQ2AP4/ThE4LHEsnFI/AAAAAAAAFFY/1-QdolvYGhU/s1600/IMG_2559.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OojhgnQ2AP4/ThE4LHEsnFI/AAAAAAAAFFY/1-QdolvYGhU/s320/IMG_2559.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5625339173090925650" border="0" /></a>The 4' 6" Devadatta, the Reiki specialist cum hair stylist<br />was the female prototype of Rakesh Ansera...<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Bzdp4MVdHwk/ThE4MSJuRcI/AAAAAAAAFF4/uxCFPxWCVIo/s1600/IMG_2633.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 254px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Bzdp4MVdHwk/ThE4MSJuRcI/AAAAAAAAFF4/uxCFPxWCVIo/s320/IMG_2633.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5625339193244665282" border="0" /></a>The Yesudas-lookalike must have worked out the gym<br />for years in the past. The baritone voice competed with his ebony<br />structure. The Commander of the cruise !<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mf5xZQiUnjA/ThE3a6tWruI/AAAAAAAAFFQ/fpuFhRV2nPw/s1600/IMG_2556.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mf5xZQiUnjA/ThE3a6tWruI/AAAAAAAAFFQ/fpuFhRV2nPw/s320/IMG_2556.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5625338345138073314" border="0" /></a>Shaji Malayalappuzha always refused to trim his <span style="font-style: italic;">nom de plume</span><br />to just the first part. The same spirit must be working in him<br />to lead strong anti-hooch crusades in his hometown, Pathanamthitta.<br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PaY3wwDFGJw/ThE3aTz1InI/AAAAAAAAFFA/WPonC1X2iVk/s1600/IMG_2554.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PaY3wwDFGJw/ThE3aTz1InI/AAAAAAAAFFA/WPonC1X2iVk/s320/IMG_2554.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5625338334696252018" border="0" /></a>The Camera man was cool game though not perfectly<br />pleased with the dental reworkings..<br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VklA9NWNzSo/ThE2IsCvJYI/AAAAAAAAFDY/zTemDF39RAE/s1600/IMG_2552.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 252px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VklA9NWNzSo/ThE2IsCvJYI/AAAAAAAAFDY/zTemDF39RAE/s320/IMG_2552.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5625336932451952002" border="0" /></a>One of the camera quartet, this young man's caricature<br />made me somehow bolder for the moment..<br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-usxd0vWMV88/ThE3aWmT7oI/AAAAAAAAFFI/jgtnEyFUttk/s1600/IMG_2555.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-usxd0vWMV88/ThE3aWmT7oI/AAAAAAAAFFI/jgtnEyFUttk/s320/IMG_2555.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5625338335444856450" border="0" /></a>This was the first done of the Camera 4. The young man<br />looked happy with the 50 second work...<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-yas36tUQWkU/ThE3aKyPmsI/AAAAAAAAFE4/inbbclbXlOg/s1600/IMG_2553.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 251px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-yas36tUQWkU/ThE3aKyPmsI/AAAAAAAAFE4/inbbclbXlOg/s320/IMG_2553.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5625338332273679042" border="0" /></a>The Amul baby of the Camera quartet had no challenging features,<br />fortunately. The forenoon session had ended. All these four<br />were done as appetisers just before indulging in 'Karimeen'...<br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Aoiyw4B-zPQ/ThE3Hg2kRDI/AAAAAAAAFEg/AKgNBS0-RFA/s1600/IMG_2612.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 225px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Aoiyw4B-zPQ/ThE3Hg2kRDI/AAAAAAAAFEg/AKgNBS0-RFA/s320/IMG_2612.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5625338011779875890" border="0" /></a>This young man wanted to be drawn again on thick paper<br />I chose for the function. Youngsters, all of them brazenly<br />mentioned facebook - only one stuck to Orkut - while introducing<br />their desire. Months later, all would swear by Google Plus.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dh5b4yHBlM8/ThE3ZxOyr9I/AAAAAAAAFEw/Jme45NimXEQ/s1600/IMG_2571.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dh5b4yHBlM8/ThE3ZxOyr9I/AAAAAAAAFEw/Jme45NimXEQ/s320/IMG_2571.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5625338325414096850" border="0" /></a>This Plus 2 boy turned out to be the real god send for me. He was watching his friends bathe by the side of the water-ghat with his scooty on stand nearby. Then, This not at all tellworthy speed caricature worked. Soon, this samaritan would accompany me on the pillion right through a maze of muddy country walkways bordered by endless shrubs to Cartoonist Tom's ancestral home 2 km away and back to the starting point, 1 hour later. A real god send this man !<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hrlfoXcn1cM/ThE3HOsCn2I/AAAAAAAAFEY/XHgO5WGuemY/s1600/IMG_2593.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hrlfoXcn1cM/ThE3HOsCn2I/AAAAAAAAFEY/XHgO5WGuemY/s320/IMG_2593.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5625338006903889762" border="0" /></a>Before starting the bike for the way back, I had to fleece<br />these two young boys with 30 second works. No complaints... Poor boys !<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dwYpfkgHefI/ThE3G2iBr4I/AAAAAAAAFEQ/c7gttEP4rzI/s1600/IMG_2592.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dwYpfkgHefI/ThE3G2iBr4I/AAAAAAAAFEQ/c7gttEP4rzI/s320/IMG_2592.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5625338000419434370" border="0" /></a>Now, i feel really sad that I lost the mail ID of the scooter boy.<br />I had promised to send him... these... Costly miss !<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-size:130%;" >TOMS HOME - a male bastion !</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-um-63GS31Z8/ThE3Gh0cyuI/AAAAAAAAFEI/5G_9e9Gl15U/s1600/IMG_2588.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-um-63GS31Z8/ThE3Gh0cyuI/AAAAAAAAFEI/5G_9e9Gl15U/s320/IMG_2588.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5625337994859563746" border="0" /></a>.... , worker & companion to Shri Peter, Cartoonist and elder brother of TOMS<br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GQJt0sNQX7M/ThE2ikchEHI/AAAAAAAAFD4/Cy1W6eQZ5ds/s1600/IMG_2586.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GQJt0sNQX7M/ThE2ikchEHI/AAAAAAAAFD4/Cy1W6eQZ5ds/s320/IMG_2586.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5625337377089196146" border="0" /></a>......... , younger brother of Toms, is a vegetarian, tongue-tied,<br />non-smoking, teetotaller, barefooted, white-wearing simple man.<br />Looked like Jiddu Krishnamoorthy. The commanding,<br />power-packed long calls of his eldest brother, he heard<br />and obliged like a house cat without pedigree. But, the<br />elder brothers had great care for him, it seemed.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sfXVrCMnsag/ThE2iYh3xCI/AAAAAAAAFDw/VM-PSfUtg2I/s1600/IMG_2585.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sfXVrCMnsag/ThE2iYh3xCI/AAAAAAAAFDw/VM-PSfUtg2I/s320/IMG_2585.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5625337373890429986" border="0" /></a>........ , Peter 's man-friday. What a bundle of features this face is, I wondered...<br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jlt_kYQ3EJE/ThE2iwqYAmI/AAAAAAAAFEA/ge2h2ync3pU/s1600/IMG_2587.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jlt_kYQ3EJE/ThE2iwqYAmI/AAAAAAAAFEA/ge2h2ync3pU/s320/IMG_2587.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5625337380368548450" border="0" /></a>.... introduced himself as neighbour , working class and occasional drinker<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-cPR9ziC1ctw/ThE2iU1HNmI/AAAAAAAAFDo/RX9hGeewaLo/s1600/IMG_2584.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-cPR9ziC1ctw/ThE2iU1HNmI/AAAAAAAAFDo/RX9hGeewaLo/s320/IMG_2584.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5625337372897392226" border="0" /></a><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-id7Yfx8QVkE/ThHpTQOZHuI/AAAAAAAAFGI/MAyyCsBvQw4/s1600/444.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 264px; height: 242px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-id7Yfx8QVkE/ThHpTQOZHuI/AAAAAAAAFGI/MAyyCsBvQw4/s320/444.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5625533926544580322" border="0" /></a>Peter, 90 , cartoonist <span style="font-style: italic;">Peter Thoms</span> of the 40's and 50's. Elder brother of Toms, 84.<br />The style was curiously KS Pillai's, Sankar's. The ancestral home was supported by paper cuttings pasted over paper cuttings, most of them bearing colour pictures. Would look like a nursery school taken over by the Archaeology Dept. Amidst the mayhem,<br />yellowing cut-outs of his illustrious cartoons of his times.<br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5DvkuNhBAag/ThHpTNgIpjI/AAAAAAAAFGA/5-6qgouPFCg/s1600/3333.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 202px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5DvkuNhBAag/ThHpTNgIpjI/AAAAAAAAFGA/5-6qgouPFCg/s320/3333.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5625533925813691954" border="0" /></a>At this age, he showed flares of gritty mind to speak with sound sense.<br />Toms and Peter, both are made of steely resolve. And ....<br />was happy to be subdued in all aspects of living. But, his face<br />exuded more love & care. He appeared more equanimous<br />with all living things around him.<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fMOM1cRFiMk/ThE2iGtBXGI/AAAAAAAAFDg/SAaE7MvzeTE/s1600/IMG_2631.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 226px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fMOM1cRFiMk/ThE2iGtBXGI/AAAAAAAAFDg/SAaE7MvzeTE/s320/IMG_2631.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5625337369105357922" border="0" /></a>For the umpteenth time, Toms sir obliged without a murmer to my request for a 'pose' :). In the 80's, he was the great Master to the now-middleaged me and KCA Chairman, Presannan, to scores like us. There was no radio, TV to subvert our target. No cyber nothing to perhaps spoil us beyond repair. Just practice at home and the silent euphoria over the occasional sights of our cartoons inside the improbable pages of dangling weeklies in pan shops. There, this man and stalwarts like AS, Yesudasan, Sukumar, Somanathan and PV Krishnan entered the occasional cartoon camps, some with noise and some without, but all left lasting marks of desire to excel in all of us. Time chose some to flaunt as banners, didn't others. But, when after 28 years this man strides into our gatherings that sometimes smelled old spirit, we feel .... very happy, as if arrived together. Do not know why.</div>Cartoonisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06372807252348670322noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8110815195645758635.post-77914517307475430392011-06-25T05:39:00.000-07:002011-08-11T01:01:03.500-07:001 minute at the Collectorate ...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">11.06.2011</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Ernakulam Collectorate</span><br />It was the last leg of the Assembly election process for some of us - the accountants.<br />Clerks dragged crates containing stacks of illegibly filled up forms that already seemed to fray at the ends and turn yellow uncelebrated. Agents of the candidates who cowered just a month back to talk to me were not there to witness the silliness rolled out there, paper after paper. Only two Observers from the North presided over the elaborate nothings that were churned out witnessed by passing penpushers with morose and ashen faces. Only 12 km away, scenes, men and women boringly familiar to those in my own office were again coming to life. Only, the extravagance was smothered , but the human voices more resounding. </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 130%;">I had started to gasp with despair. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 130%;"><br />In between, I had to do something to escape all the predictables. I beckoned a man looking at me. Then, another. Then, one more....thus so many , some of whom I present before you.. :)<br /><br />Please smile at them generously.<br /><br /></span><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YvvdRygXlPo/TgXjj2E6QLI/AAAAAAAAE_8/5um7s5YSUIQ/s1600/IMG_2436.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5622149914792968370" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YvvdRygXlPo/TgXjj2E6QLI/AAAAAAAAE_8/5um7s5YSUIQ/s320/IMG_2436.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 320px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 246px;" /></a><br />
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-dcoAlkCCl70/TgXjju8w5dI/AAAAAAAAE_s/4t4ON6DcyF4/s1600/IMG_2438.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5622149912879752658" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-dcoAlkCCl70/TgXjju8w5dI/AAAAAAAAE_s/4t4ON6DcyF4/s320/IMG_2438.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 320px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 244px;" /></a><br />
<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-CkNatSZr9eU/TgXjjP9I71I/AAAAAAAAE_k/YjGPhQGrfuw/s1600/IMG_2439.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5622149904559828818" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-CkNatSZr9eU/TgXjjP9I71I/AAAAAAAAE_k/YjGPhQGrfuw/s320/IMG_2439.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 320px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 274px;" /></a><br />
<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YUjR8dqKEKw/TgXji3M-_6I/AAAAAAAAE_c/kxVawHQEre4/s1600/IMG_2441.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5622149897915400098" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YUjR8dqKEKw/TgXji3M-_6I/AAAAAAAAE_c/kxVawHQEre4/s320/IMG_2441.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 320px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 240px;" /></a><br />
<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-kLlAGd4bMHY/TgXiMF0fNVI/AAAAAAAAE_M/-dT5RDX9-ks/s1600/IMG_2443.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5622148407190566226" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-kLlAGd4bMHY/TgXiMF0fNVI/AAAAAAAAE_M/-dT5RDX9-ks/s320/IMG_2443.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 320px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 232px;" /></a><br />
<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ytoNQNVWjSM/TgXiLv_ERHI/AAAAAAAAE_E/UZYS7OvSWyE/s1600/IMG_2444.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5622148401329357938" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ytoNQNVWjSM/TgXiLv_ERHI/AAAAAAAAE_E/UZYS7OvSWyE/s320/IMG_2444.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 320px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 256px;" /></a><br />
<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--rTRw3vhsvY/TgXiLbhvUEI/AAAAAAAAE-8/iCsruAOeLbM/s1600/IMG_2445.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5622148395837640770" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--rTRw3vhsvY/TgXiLbhvUEI/AAAAAAAAE-8/iCsruAOeLbM/s320/IMG_2445.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 320px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 240px;" /></a><br />
<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jTkc7pAbD8o/TgXiLJ5uC8I/AAAAAAAAE-0/w_qH30ke_os/s1600/IMG_2446.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5622148391106382786" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jTkc7pAbD8o/TgXiLJ5uC8I/AAAAAAAAE-0/w_qH30ke_os/s320/IMG_2446.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 320px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 241px;" /></a><br />
<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-L-wIvvhz6h8/TgXiMhknAbI/AAAAAAAAE_U/EfYU2RtMkew/s1600/IMG_2442.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5622148414640161202" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-L-wIvvhz6h8/TgXiMhknAbI/AAAAAAAAE_U/EfYU2RtMkew/s320/IMG_2442.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 320px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 237px;" /></a><br />
<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aF_EFYS-iyo/TgXh-LnBI2I/AAAAAAAAE-k/goycHaIDVI0/s1600/IMG_2448.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5622148168226513762" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aF_EFYS-iyo/TgXh-LnBI2I/AAAAAAAAE-k/goycHaIDVI0/s320/IMG_2448.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 320px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 246px;" /></a><br />
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LpJ3Gm3Z1W4/TgXh9v8vvXI/AAAAAAAAE-U/WsLGvxs9SiI/s1600/IMG_2451.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5622148160801455474" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LpJ3Gm3Z1W4/TgXh9v8vvXI/AAAAAAAAE-U/WsLGvxs9SiI/s320/IMG_2451.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 320px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 258px;" /></a><br />
<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-NRPG3ihl414/TgXh9QMLJUI/AAAAAAAAE-M/azmZc4we5zQ/s1600/IMG_2452.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5622148152276231490" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-NRPG3ihl414/TgXh9QMLJUI/AAAAAAAAE-M/azmZc4we5zQ/s320/IMG_2452.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 320px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 238px;" /></a><br />
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-iewGxEQ2JLk/TgXhYgDIfaI/AAAAAAAAE98/zFVWmj5Rjh8/s1600/IMG_2455.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5622147520878116258" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-iewGxEQ2JLk/TgXhYgDIfaI/AAAAAAAAE98/zFVWmj5Rjh8/s320/IMG_2455.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 320px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 234px;" /></a><br />
<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Cbf5mIIqEh8/TgXhYhj9QMI/AAAAAAAAE90/uJ9q2ZEHjsA/s1600/IMG_2456.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5622147521284227266" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Cbf5mIIqEh8/TgXhYhj9QMI/AAAAAAAAE90/uJ9q2ZEHjsA/s320/IMG_2456.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 320px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 220px;" /></a><br />
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-luJEQtJxBUE/TgXhYaykJ2I/AAAAAAAAE9k/C1ObrenykvM/s1600/IMG_2458.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5622147519466448738" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-luJEQtJxBUE/TgXhYaykJ2I/AAAAAAAAE9k/C1ObrenykvM/s320/IMG_2458.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 320px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 246px;" /></a><br />
<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8dzX_7M4alU/TgXhZJh156I/AAAAAAAAE-E/RB2sA_-aKro/s1600/IMG_2454.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5622147532012775330" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8dzX_7M4alU/TgXhZJh156I/AAAAAAAAE-E/RB2sA_-aKro/s320/IMG_2454.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 320px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 266px;" /></a><br />
<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-aMnVyfyQ8VE/TgXgx6ZJTSI/AAAAAAAAE9U/9QwjO2SDU7s/s1600/IMG_2461.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5622146857934867746" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-aMnVyfyQ8VE/TgXgx6ZJTSI/AAAAAAAAE9U/9QwjO2SDU7s/s320/IMG_2461.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 320px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 229px;" /></a><br />
<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Pc9bADntJok/TgXgxXNDNkI/AAAAAAAAE9M/KdGMSWMduwY/s1600/IMG_2463.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5622146848488896066" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Pc9bADntJok/TgXgxXNDNkI/AAAAAAAAE9M/KdGMSWMduwY/s320/IMG_2463.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 320px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 266px;" /></a><br />
<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-V8upsahJtFQ/TgXgxFBoGUI/AAAAAAAAE9E/cHXmG-EcHTc/s1600/IMG_2464.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5622146843609143618" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-V8upsahJtFQ/TgXgxFBoGUI/AAAAAAAAE9E/cHXmG-EcHTc/s320/IMG_2464.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 320px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 209px;" /></a><br />
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Cartoonisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06372807252348670322noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8110815195645758635.post-32813535517527286672011-05-29T21:13:00.000-07:002011-09-12T16:23:08.606-07:001 Minute for the Limca Book of Records<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: 130%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Looking back, together with the Kerala Cartoon Academy, UTHRATAPPACHIL, the 12 hour nonstop live caricaturing yajna conducted at the Thrikkakkara Temple, Ernakulam has been the singlemost satisfying venture undertaken by both of us. Immense thanks to my senior cartoonist friend, TVG Menon -Vasily Vascillowich Chettov as he reminds me in his mails that he really is - who posted this greatly presentable video on the YouTube ! Sudheernath, the then KCA Secretary floored everyone with his compulsive organising capacity. I am still awe-struck !</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 130%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The Kerala Cartoon Academy has never been able to garner this many cartoonists and PR resources at short notice in the 29 years of its existence. This video is a celebration of all that the KCA has been standing for. Equally, this was KCA's tribute to a cartoonist who unlike most others was too lazy to take interest in getting his works published and opted to be a silent though slow worker, instead. Thanks KCA !<br /><br />The ceremonial lighting of the traditional lamp (Nilavilakku), cartoonist's more talented playback singer wife in solemn prayer in the brightlit background, the resonating Panchavaadyam and the mirth and expectant bustle of the caricature seekers and devotees, one elephant to other elephants, all caparisoned in grandeur, the expanse of the stage set to liberal measurements said for the music dramas and the long patient queue winding down from the dias - all those were great blessings that would grace only very few artists in this world. Nowhere else, this kind of celebration of an art form other than the temple arts inside a temple premise would have taken place.<br /><br />Each caricature elicited peels of laughter from men and women of all temparament, might be only for a few seconds. Men and women, many of them, laughed for the first time in their life looking at themselves. There was no rancour, no bad blood. After each caricature nudged to the subject in thanks, I regretted the extra flourish of the black marker pen or the lack of it, as I have, eversince and everbefore, been doing. But, all not artfully but sportively compromised to the compulsive faltering of lines happening during fast live caricaturing. One 92 year old lady, Ananthalakshmy Ammal , a classical vocalist who was there to sing before the deity blessed me many times and danced in the centre stage like a pro ! A young farmer from Muvattupuzha whom I drew in the morning waited till 8pm just to put a simple garland around my (non-existent :() neck ! I thank them all. My fellow cartoonists, most of them junior to me in age, constantly saw to that there was minimal lag in seating one subject after the previous one lifted oneself up. At the end, the tally was 651 caricatures in 12 hours, @ 66.36 seconds per caricature.<br /><br />Once again, I thank all my friends, the 651 subjects, the supporters and the grace of all the powers that stay beyond me, far away from my ignorances. The KCA or me may never be able to do a show like this. This kind of thing is once in a lifetime for a cartoonist.<br /><br />Truly, once-in-a-lifetime ! </span></span></div>
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Cartoonisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06372807252348670322noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8110815195645758635.post-62690242878550825362011-05-29T03:10:00.000-07:002011-05-29T03:39:38.886-07:00Smiles in the Naturopathy Hospital<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The Naturopathy Hospital, Tirur, Malappuram District run by Dr. Radhakrishnan is perhaps the best institution in Kerala to equip patients on discharge to face life with more kindness and smile and with much less ill will and calorie intake. The three months my 84 year old mother spent there made her lighter by 10 kilos and stronger in her joints. A congenital asthmatic, Amma was almost fully deaf, which made her to strongly feel inferior and singled out of all crowds. In fact, it was not as much Amma's constant reading habit and beaming countenance that allowed her to survive the laming loneliness in that distant colourless place with a different culture with dignity as the overwhelming love & care, the poor Muslim housewives and their innocent beloveds showered on her. It was not a show but the only possible spontaneous response to a fellow human being who suffered alone and silently. </span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I thank all of them who stood all along by my mother, deep from my heart. </span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Please see below see of the caricatures I had drawn on two of the many occasions I visited Amma. </span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">A fair representation through two aged Muslim locals, a kid, an activist young man and the hospital Guruji :)</span></span><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ugZ7jbfuZTM/TeIc_uBFHxI/AAAAAAAAE6o/Rf9mWs5vQPk/s1600/IMG_1650.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 165px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ugZ7jbfuZTM/TeIc_uBFHxI/AAAAAAAAE6o/Rf9mWs5vQPk/s320/IMG_1650.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5612079966666956562" border="0" /></a><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-0Pe3PxoigUc/TeIc_cTQFHI/AAAAAAAAE6g/8SZPvmdUW8k/s1600/IMG_1580.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 179px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-0Pe3PxoigUc/TeIc_cTQFHI/AAAAAAAAE6g/8SZPvmdUW8k/s320/IMG_1580.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5612079961911334002" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1PiYyDb8Uj4/TeIc_A6V9nI/AAAAAAAAE6Y/rrMboPk1OUc/s1600/IMG_1578.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 183px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1PiYyDb8Uj4/TeIc_A6V9nI/AAAAAAAAE6Y/rrMboPk1OUc/s320/IMG_1578.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5612079954559104626" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Dez9mjlWFys/TeIc_JqxzII/AAAAAAAAE6Q/zhCF-odHX5Q/s1600/IMG_1575.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 180px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Dez9mjlWFys/TeIc_JqxzII/AAAAAAAAE6Q/zhCF-odHX5Q/s320/IMG_1575.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5612079956909739138" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lvF36s7pywM/TeIc_8fqneI/AAAAAAAAE6w/htBpLQgQM7Y/s1600/IMG_1563.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 161px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lvF36s7pywM/TeIc_8fqneI/AAAAAAAAE6w/htBpLQgQM7Y/s320/IMG_1563.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5612079970553339362" border="0" /></a>Cartoonisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06372807252348670322noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8110815195645758635.post-54830901446581702152011-05-27T23:43:00.000-07:002011-05-28T02:28:29.354-07:00Facebook readers<div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4RFU2cFckMc/TeChfligGyI/AAAAAAAAE40/BDG9FD2kQ9w/s1600/IMG_2401.JPG"><br /></a><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;">In the past, I have often come across absolutely absolute strangers with mostly non-caricaturable features who, after a short quizzing on public roads where such meetings always happened, would reveal themselves as my dearest Orkut-Facebook-Blogger groups buddies-incarnate. The massive size and the cat eyes, always beat my natural tendency to lie low, remain unseen and observe with abandon under that feigned immunity. </span> <span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;"><br /><br />Now, months after the last such incident, it was the turn of my Telugu facebook friend from Bangalore, </span><span style="font-size:130%;"><a style="font-weight: bold; font-family: arial;" href="http://www.facebook.com/SRIDHAR.C.R">Sridhar Comaravalli</a></span><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;">, an SBI retiree who bumped against me yesterday afternoon, his musician wife and Tanwi, the 8 year old sweet daughter of his long time friend, on tow. Sridhar is now on a splurge shooting away stills on his present travel spree. We hit upon each other through cartoons.</span><span style="font-size:130%;"> </span><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;">Minutes later, when my good friend with the <span style="font-style: italic;">bhasma </span>laden, satwik face departed, I had nothing else to present them with other than what my right hand has been indulgingly churning out without complaints for the last 35 years whenever I demanded....</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;">Good bye, Sridhar, madam and the sweeeeeet, book-lover Tanwi :)</span><br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4RFU2cFckMc/TeChfligGyI/AAAAAAAAE40/BDG9FD2kQ9w/s1600/IMG_2401.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 338px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4RFU2cFckMc/TeChfligGyI/AAAAAAAAE40/BDG9FD2kQ9w/s400/IMG_2401.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5611662699728476962" border="0" /></a><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nx1lPSQnyfA/TeChfq88nWI/AAAAAAAAE4s/bwlUW4EJRlA/s1600/IMG_2398.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 315px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nx1lPSQnyfA/TeChfq88nWI/AAAAAAAAE4s/bwlUW4EJRlA/s400/IMG_2398.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5611662701181574498" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-c21Rgu7VdDU/TeChfX6R5II/AAAAAAAAE4k/mK9EpHkBso4/s1600/IMG_2402.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 295px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-c21Rgu7VdDU/TeChfX6R5II/AAAAAAAAE4k/mK9EpHkBso4/s400/IMG_2402.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5611662696070112386" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ydibsMUok1Y/TeChf-njbhI/AAAAAAAAE48/z9nGOFGEPSM/s1600/IMG_2397.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 279px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ydibsMUok1Y/TeChf-njbhI/AAAAAAAAE48/z9nGOFGEPSM/s400/IMG_2397.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5611662706460552722" border="0" /></a>Cartoonisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06372807252348670322noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8110815195645758635.post-84928801334234732432011-05-22T12:40:00.000-07:002011-05-24T22:20:57.807-07:00Mattanchery revisited !<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="z19Dle" id="col-z13qg3ajjnfpvl4yg04cdziqmkfhd30xhrc0k"><span class="zo"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">It was after a long gap that I had to visit Mattanchery, yesterday evening, a dead city full of llingering old smells of spices and small time tea shops. A small function had been arranged to felicitate the team behind Kerala's first Konkani film. I took Dinesh Shenoy, my recent friend and a local, too along to the function. Dinesh, my opposite in girth is a killer in painting heritage buildings in sepia on canvas, each of which he finishes in exactly six days. Anand Kamath, an immensely caricaturable face and my friend, was the force behind this konkani idea. He was game enough to my suggestion of a 1 minute caricature-gift to each of the team members. In no time, A4 size paper was hailed for from the shop opposite and I drew out a slew of black markers in anticipation of the imminent soft kill to happen on paper.</span></span></span></span><br /><br /><span class="z19Dle" id="col-z13qg3ajjnfpvl4yg04cdziqmkfhd30xhrc0k"><span class="zo"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">The 15 caricatures I drew are here. Please have a tour :)</span></span></span></span><br /><br /><br /></div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8r-BVJIyaiY/Tdlr8kw08NI/AAAAAAAAE3w/Gm1mZg7LrX4/s1600/IMG_2369.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 305px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8r-BVJIyaiY/Tdlr8kw08NI/AAAAAAAAE3w/Gm1mZg7LrX4/s400/IMG_2369.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5609633499271459026" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-nR4B23a6MpY/Tdlr8SuXGII/AAAAAAAAE3o/uADVLhNaLPU/s1600/IMG_2370.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-nR4B23a6MpY/Tdlr8SuXGII/AAAAAAAAE3o/uADVLhNaLPU/s400/IMG_2370.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5609633494429276290" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RA2LGMlfKN0/Tdlr8FU90dI/AAAAAAAAE3g/4IG0Npkdxc4/s1600/IMG_2371.JPG"><img style="display:block; 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height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-dtr79Mrn6Ys/TdlrCTIJzdI/AAAAAAAAE3I/u6xnOm0cex8/s400/IMG_2374.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5609632498105044434" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qaAtWgLcXQY/TdlqjXkCehI/AAAAAAAAE2Y/wC0LO4ZVGZg/s1600/IMG_2383.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 277px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qaAtWgLcXQY/TdlqjXkCehI/AAAAAAAAE2Y/wC0LO4ZVGZg/s400/IMG_2383.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5609631966719801874" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fWijdffUOPc/TdlqjO_hy6I/AAAAAAAAE2Q/74Tf0mHNmRs/s1600/IMG_2378.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 237px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fWijdffUOPc/TdlqjO_hy6I/AAAAAAAAE2Q/74Tf0mHNmRs/s400/IMG_2378.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5609631964419181474" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-skk7Jo7b0nY/Tdlqj_EZiEI/AAAAAAAAE2g/OhOJytqK8Jw/s1600/IMG_2382.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 309px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-skk7Jo7b0nY/Tdlqj_EZiEI/AAAAAAAAE2g/OhOJytqK8Jw/s400/IMG_2382.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5609631977324513346" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-LkisGkQ9WvM/TdlqicWZNLI/AAAAAAAAE2I/wuqCaaPm9UY/s1600/IMG_2380.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-LkisGkQ9WvM/TdlqicWZNLI/AAAAAAAAE2I/wuqCaaPm9UY/s400/IMG_2380.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5609631950824879282" border="0" /></a>Dinesh Shenoy the artist of <span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Me in Sepia </span>(below)<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_3WmELIwJ_0/TdlqiA0OTOI/AAAAAAAAE2A/4jxcJZz3dBA/s1600/IMG_2385.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 302px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_3WmELIwJ_0/TdlqiA0OTOI/AAAAAAAAE2A/4jxcJZz3dBA/s400/IMG_2385.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5609631943433800930" border="0" /></a><span class="z19Dle" id="col-z13qg3ajjnfpvl4yg04cdziqmkfhd30xhrc0k"><span class="zo"><br /></span></span></div>Cartoonisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06372807252348670322noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8110815195645758635.post-90690116332589820142011-05-01T00:28:00.000-07:002011-05-23T00:57:08.199-07:00Childrens' Summer Art Workshop 2011<div class="post-header"> </div> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-7007773123370324858"> <span style="font-weight: bold; font-family:arial;font-size:130%;" >Day 1 of the <span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Orthic Childrens' Summer Camp and Art Workshop</span> .<br /><br />The small Nanappa Hall of Orthic Art Gallery run by my bearded, deadly artist-looking Kaladharan was full with kids, 10-16 age group. The kids , like all others before them, were spellbound watching my size. Seconds away, this would snowball into mocking glances and hushed laughs. The cunning fox that I am, a walrus-bulky me was drawn on the board in a minute. The kids could not control what had been kept on leash till then.<br /><br />Parity was declared then & there. Great peace prospered in the tiny hall for the next 2 hours !<br /><br />Each and every child participant could be finished off in less than a minute apiece, that too after explaining aloud the curious, caricaturable facial features that are to be observed by prospective caricaturists.<br /><br />Below you can see the beaming faces of the participants and the kids with the unexpected trophy in his/her hand </span>! <a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-CypljjtWD8I/Tb1hJxnAIQI/AAAAAAAAABQ/YGQQvwjA30Y/s1600/IMG_2208.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-CypljjtWD8I/Tb1hJxnAIQI/AAAAAAAAABQ/YGQQvwjA30Y/s400/IMG_2208.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5601740332082405634" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-A09-QYCjuks/Tb1hJjYvnDI/AAAAAAAAABI/WkhneYuUvNk/s1600/IMG_2209.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 295px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-A09-QYCjuks/Tb1hJjYvnDI/AAAAAAAAABI/WkhneYuUvNk/s400/IMG_2209.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5601740328264506418" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TDUv1AmDiS8/Tb1hJuYHmAI/AAAAAAAAABA/BMKLuSbBq1M/s1600/IMG_2211.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TDUv1AmDiS8/Tb1hJuYHmAI/AAAAAAAAABA/BMKLuSbBq1M/s400/IMG_2211.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5601740331214673922" border="0" /></a><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SNHiTdylFPM/Tb1hKDx5u6I/AAAAAAAAABY/ciHM_5ilVEo/s1600/IMG_2206.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 390px; height: 293px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SNHiTdylFPM/Tb1hKDx5u6I/AAAAAAAAABY/ciHM_5ilVEo/s400/IMG_2206.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5601740336959962018" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xr0_V2leTZY/Tb1hJfq68VI/AAAAAAAAAA4/F9w-bCVN1Tw/s1600/IMG_2213.JPG"><img style="float:left; 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