Dr.Mrinal Chatterjee explores the world of comic art here in this off beat topic. He starts with explaining the difference between Ridicule and Humor and also gives a broad definition of what makes cartoon, caricature, comics, Graffiti, Scroll, Patua or even Meme. The first of cartoons were published by Bengal Gazette in the British Days and soon other Indian states had their own cartoon columns in news papers and some even published cartoon exclusive magazines. The Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, Assam, Marathi and Odisha were more prominent in this aspect. Cartoons also represented the barometer of a democracy and signifies how free the press is at a place. He discussed about many maestros of cartoon world like Shankar, R.K Laxman, Kak, Subramayam Bharati, Laxmikant Bezbarua, Mario Miranda, Ajit Ninan, Paresh, Nanesu, Hari Om Sharma, Satish Acharya, David Low and many more.
Cartoon is a powerful media tool and empowers the ruled subject over their political masters.