Book Review: Unreal Elections

In the season of elections, let the politics be exposed. However, it is not only the candid view of the influences of the party over the chief body of government or of the coal distributions, which have already emerged along with a no-holds-barred account of the unbelievable functioning of Indian politicians and parties, a powerful substance that will leave you thinking and staggering.

Here in the book, the author has revealed a clearer picture of how Narendra Modi emerged as the hope of the Bharatiya Janata Party's prime ministerial notion along with his real heroes and how Rahul Gandhi’s role as a stellar in Indian politics, since the 1970s.

The book is a satire on the activities of the political leaders and members and has also given an emphasis on the actions of the wannabe political leaders, out of their anxiety. Like what forced to keep Arvind Kejrival wearing winter wear even when the weather hots up, why Mamata Banerjee cannot put up with fast food, especially with mayonnaise, what Amit Shah achieved on his emergence on "Koffee With Karan" and who the masked, Batman-like vigilante at the very summit of influence really is... All in a manner to leave you dumbfound with waves of enticing and irrepressible hilarity.

"Unreal Elections" is the pet project of the dubious pair of engineers-cum-MBAs-turned-superlatively and revolutionary humorous bloggers, C.S. Krishna and Karthik Laxman, who run "The UnRealTimes.com'.

The duo has hardheartedly done a satire on the proclivities and objectives of the political leaders of India and for that matter, the duo has raised a wide srange of other aspects of Indian society, as they draw in IPL-like spectacles, KBC-type game shows, with the cricket-inspired methods and caricatures of all-known TV personalities to deliver the eventual send-up of Indian politics as well as mass pop culture.

Political satire is not a new term to the subcontinent's ethos. In the past also, there have been many satirical shows and books about the Indian politics as to stir the grounds of the political system in India. Hari Shankar Parsai and Manohar Shyam Joshi, whose "Netaji Kahin" was adapted to the small screen as "Kakkaji Kahin", while writers such as Namita Gokhale and Anuja Chauhan have also brushed in by "Priya: In Incredible Indyaa" and "The Battle for Bittora" respectively.

Then, there have been some in which caricatures of political leaders used to be employed, however, these kind of shows are found across the border in Pakistan. The shows such as  "Hasb-e-Haal", "Hum Sab Umeed Se Hai" and the incomparable "Khabar Naak", which goes to the heights to make satire upon the corrupted political leaders.

One of the satirical shows, which is hosted by columnist Aftaab Iqbal, its sees the gifted Mir Mohammad Ali make strange pragmatic - but humorous - depiction of leaders like Imran Khan, Pervez Musharraf, Rehman Malik, Nawaz and Shahbaz Sharif, Asaf Ali Zardari, and even Bilawal Bhutto Zardari.

Both Krishna and Laxman have carried it sportingly, taking it to a dark aftertaste. Once the amusement falls down, there is the disturbing thought - overstated without a doubt, but find out how close is the reality to this depiction?

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