Download or read book Common Man Tackles Corruption written by R. K. Laxman and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Financial Crises To The Woes Of Householders, From Political Instability To Rampant Corruption, Laxman S Cartoons Capture The Entire Gamut Of Contemporary Indian Experience. Hilarious And Thought-Provoking At The Same Time, This Is A Treasurehouse Of Humour From One Of The Most Striking Voices Commenting On Indian Socio-Political Life.
Download or read book The Best of Laxman written by R. K. Laxman and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Further Selection Of Laxman`S Cartoons Featuring The Common Man-And The Result Is A Book That Is Bound To Charm, Provoke And Delight The Reader.
Download or read book The Best of Laxman written by R K Laxman and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From finanacial crisis to the woes of householders, from political instability to a rampant corrutpion, Laxman's cartoons capture the entire gamut of contemporary Indian experience. This volume is a treasure house of humour.
Download or read book Common Man Balances His Budget written by R K Laxman and published by Penguin Books Australia. This book was released on 2003-03-30 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Collection Of Gems From India'S Best-Loved Cartoonist From Financial Crises To The Woes Of Householders, From Political Instability To Rampant Corruption, Laxman'S Cartoons Capture The Entire Gamut Of Contemporary Indian Experience. Hilarious And Thought-Provoking At The Same Time, This Is A Treasure-House Of Humour From One Of The Most Striking Voices Commenting On Indian Socio-Political Life Today.
Download or read book Best of Laxman written by R K Laxman and published by . This book was released on 2003-03-30 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Collection Of Gems From India'S Best-Loved Cartoonist From Financial Crises To The Woes Of Householders, From Political Instability To Rampant Corruption, Laxman'S Cartoons Capture The Entire Gamut Of Contemporary Indian Experience. Hilarious And Thought-Provoking At The Same Time, This Is A Treasure-House Of Humour From One Of The Most Striking Voices Commenting On Indian Socio-Political Life Today.
Download or read book Dose Of Laughter written by R K Laxman and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A humorous look at doctors and their ilk by India's best-loved cartoonist Laughter, they say, is the best medicine. It is therefore fitting that the world's most honourable profession should have a great deal of fun made at its expense. Humour directed at physicians and medicine has sustained many a suffering patient through the bleakest of times. A Dose of Laughter is an exhilarating collection of cartoons and jokes about doctors and their practices that will bring a smile to the lips of those who wield the stethoscope as well as those who yield to it. The book contains 100 cartoons about the world of doctors, hospitals, laboratories, ailments, maladies, health schemes and hygiene that show R.K. Laxman at his inimitable best. These are accompanied by a hundred of the funniest jokes about doctors and the medical profession collected from all over the world. Together these make for a witty, perceptive look at the unequal effort doctors make to combat disease and bring succour to their fellow humans. This is a book that can be dipped into at random, or read from cover to cover. In either case, it is guaranteed to provide a great deal of unadulterated merriment and laughter.
Download or read book The Very Best of the Common Man written by R. K. Laxman and published by Penguin India. This book was released on 2012 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For half a century, the Times of India has thoughtfully provided an antidote to all the bad news brimming on its front pages. It s a sketch, a single box, inked by R.K. Laxman, the country s sharpest cartoonist and political satirist. Each morning, Laxman s frazzled character, known as the Common Man, confronts India s latest heartbreak with a kind of wry resignation. . . . What s common about this character is that like most Indians, he sees his country being forced through endless indignities by its leaders and yet doesn t even whimper in protest.
Download or read book Common Man Takes A Stroll written by R K Laxman and published by . This book was released on with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Collection Of Gems From India'S Best-Loved Cartoonist From Financial Crises To The Woes Of Householders, From Political Instability To Rampant Corruption, Laxman'S Cartoons Capture The Entire Gamut Of Contemporary Indian Experience. Hilarious And Thought-Provoking At The Same Time, This Is A Treasure-House Of Humour From One Of The Most Striking Voices Commenting On Indian Socio-Political Life Today.
Download or read book Corruption as an Empty Signifier written by Lucy Koechlin and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-05-23 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corruption as an Empty Signifier critically explores the ways in which corruption in Africa has been equated with African politics and political order, and offers a novel approach to understanding corruption as a potentially emancipatory discourse of political transformation.
Download or read book Snitch written by Ethan Brown and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2007-12-10 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our criminal justice system favors defendants who know how to play the "5K game": criminals who are so savvy about the cooperation process that they repeatedly commit serious crimes knowing they can be sent back to the streets if they simply cooperate with prosecutors. In Snitch, investigative reporter Ethan Brown shows through a compelling series of case profiles how the sentencing guidelines for drug-related offenses, along with the 5K1.1 section, have unintentionally created a "cottage industry of cooperators," and led to fabricated evidence. The result is wrongful convictions and appallingly gruesome crimes, including the grisly murder of the Harvey family in Richmond, Virginia and the well-publicized murder of Imette St. Guillen in New York City. This cooperator-coddling criminal justice system has ignited the infamous "Stop Snitching" movement in urban neighborhoods, deplored by everyone from the NAACP to the mayor of Boston for encouraging witness intimidation. But as Snitch shows, the movement is actually a cry against the harsh sentencing guidelines for drug-related crimes, and a call for hustlers to return to "old school" street values, like: do the crime, do the time. Combining deep knowledge of the criminal justice system with frontline true crime reporting, Snitch is a shocking and brutally troubling report about the state of American justice when it's no longer clear who are the good guys and who are the bad.
Download or read book Swallow Savannah written by Ken Burger and published by EveningPostBooks. This book was released on 2009 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set against the backdrop of the Savannah River Site and its start in the area, this novel involves such issues as nuclear testing on humans, political corruption, civil rights, murder, exploitation, and dark family secrets.
Download or read book Brushing Up the Years written by R. K. Laxman and published by Viking Penguin. This book was released on 2005 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1947, throughout the entire history of independent India, R.K. Laxman's cartoons have appeared regularly in The Times of India, commenting on every possible aspect of India's social and political life. Some years ago, Time magazine called R.K. Laxman 'the country's sharpest cartoonist and political satirist'. For many Indians, however, Laxman is much more. His daily cartoons, with their whimsical, idiosyncratic and downright hilarious depictions of Indianness, have become something of a national habit - a way for millions of readers to tackle the perplexing and often frustrating headlines in the morning newspaper. Laxman's Common Man cartoons are sharp and pointed observations on the rampant corruption, social injustice, financial fiascos and political byplays that have plagued the nation since its inception. His political cartoons, on the other hand, are marvellous caricatures of the personalities and policies of our larger-than-life leaders. Laxman's cartoons represent a uniquely Indian take on life, informed, humorous, philosophical and above all, mischievous. These, perhaps, are the qualities that have made him India's best-loved cartoonist. selection of the very best of Laxman's cartoons, drawn over a career spanning six decades. From India's first general elections to Nehru's Five-Year Plans, from the wars with China and Pakistan to the reign of Indira Gandhi and the Emergency, from Rajiv Gandhi's government, the rise of regional politics and the fall of the Babri Masjid to economic liberalization, the rule of the BJP and the Congress's return to power, these cartoons trace a history of modern India, a history that is perceptive, provocative and humorous.
Download or read book The Appeal written by John Grisham and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-03-16 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In a crowded courtroom in Mississippi, a jury returns a shocking verdict against a chemical company accused of dumping toxic waste into a small town’s water supply, causing the worst “cancer cluster” in history. The company appeals to the Mississippi Supreme Court, whose nine justices will one day either approve the verdict—or reverse it. The chemical company is owned by a Wall Street predator named Carl Trudeau, and Mr. Trudeau is convinced the Court is not friendly enough to his interests. With judicial elections looming, he decides to try to purchase himself a seat on the Court. The cost is a few million dollars, a drop in the bucket for a billionaire like Mr. Trudeau. Through an intricate web of conspiracy and deceit, his political operatives recruit a young, unsuspecting candidate. They finance him, manipulate him, market him, and mold him into a potential Supreme Court justice. Their Supreme Court justice. Don’t miss John Grisham’s new book, THE EXCHANGE: AFTER THE FIRM!
Download or read book What Money Can t Buy written by Michael J. Sandel and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In What Money Can't Buy, renowned political philosopher Michael J. Sandel rethinks the role that markets and money should play in our society. Should we pay children to read books or to get good grades? Should we put a price on human life to decide how much pollution to allow? Is it ethical to pay people to test risky new drugs or to donate their organs? What about hiring mercenaries to fight our wars, outsourcing inmates to for-profit prisons, auctioning admission to elite universities, or selling citizenship to immigrants willing to pay? In his New York Times bestseller What Money Can't Buy, Michael J. Sandel takes up one of the biggest ethical questions of our time: Isn't there something wrong with a world in which everything is for sale? If so, how can we prevent market values from reaching into spheres of life where they don't belong? What are the moral limits of markets? Over recent decades, market values have crowded out nonmarket norms in almost every aspect of life. Without quite realizing it, Sandel argues, we have drifted from having a market economy to being a market society. In Justice, an international bestseller, Sandel showed himself to be a master at illuminating, with clarity and verve, the hard moral questions we confront in our everyday lives. Now, in What Money Can't Buy, he provokes a debate that's been missing in our market-driven age: What is the proper role of markets in a democratic society, and how can we protect the moral and civic goods that markets do not honor and money cannot buy?
Download or read book The Impostor written by Damon Galgut and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2009-01-06 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An “unsettling and engaging” novel about contemporary South Africa, from the Man Booker Prize–winning author of The Promise (The Telegraph). Adam Napier leaves Johannesburg looking for a fresh start. Jobless and directionless, but with a head full of literary ambitions, he moves into his brother’s dilapidated house on the edge of a backwater town. One day he encounters Canning, a man who claims Adam saved his life in their school days. Adam does not remember him at all. But he plays along and, for a time, enjoys all that Canning has: a vast fortune and game preserve inherited from his father, and a beautiful, mysterious younger wife to whom Adam is compulsively, dangerously drawn. “An antipastoral, post-apartheid noir” (Publishers Weekly) by “a worthy heir to Gordimer and Coetzee”, The Imposter evokes a glittering world of the moneyed old guard, newly empowered black Africans, and the betrayal and obsessions hiding in the shadows of the new South African dream (The Guardian, UK).
Download or read book Distorted Mirror written by R K Laxman and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2004 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection brings togethet some of Laxman's best short stories, travelogues about the United State, Australia, the Andamans, Darjeeling etc
Download or read book Laugh with Laxman written by R. K. Laxman and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 1999 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author is best known for his common man cartoons, and hascreated cartoons os a world that even the ubiquitous common man is not privy to. It is here that Laxman's sense of parodyand satire find some of their finest expressions. A selection of these rare and masterly cartoons which comment caustically on our social and political character were togethter in the first volume of laugh with Laxman, and proved to be immensly popular. This is the second volume in the series replete with timeless gems that continue to amuse.
