Q.Collect cartoons from various newspapers and magazines. What are the various issues that they are concerned with? Which political concept do they highlight?

This is an open collection activity, so the answer explains the method, using the chapter's own R.K. Laxman cartoon as the model. …

This is a genuine, open-ended activity -- there is no fixed set of cartoons to "find," since newspapers and magazines change daily -- so the useful answer is the method for doing it well, illustrated with the example already given in the chapter itself. On page 3, the chapter reproduces a cartoon by R.K. Laxman from the Times of India, in which a father tells his son's political-worker neighbour to "retire from politics at once," because the neighbour's own conduct -- getting away with lying and cheating -- is having a bad influence on the boy. The issue this cartoon comments on is the popular perception that political life encourages dishonesty, and the political concept it highlights is the tension between public office and personal integrity -- essentially, accountability and the popular, sceptical image of politics discussed in section 1.1. …