A Satire: Bonus Theme I

Ever used humour to make a bad situation better (or worse 😅)? Ever felt so frustrated that you can make only passive aggressive jokes? We’ve all been there!

This prompts is all about giving in and making fun of society, politics, culture and humanity by reading satire.

Recommendations:

Cat's Cradle Told with deadpan humour and bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut's cult tale of global destruction preys on our deepest fears of witnessing Armageddon and, worse still, surviving it.

The White Tiger Aravind Adiga's Pulitzer Prize winning novel, a satire on India's society and politics. Really good read, way better than the Netflix movie. This is a story of coruscating wit, blistering suspense, and questionable morality, told by the most volatile, captivating, and utterly inimitable narrator that this millennium has yet seen.

The Psychopath Test The Psychopath Test is a fascinating journey through the minds of madness. Jon Ronson's exploration of a potential hoax being played on the world's top neurologists takes him, unexpectedly, into the heart of the madness industry.

Raag Darbaari Raag Darbari is a satirical Hindi novel written by Sri Lal Sukla, published in 1968. He was awarded the Sahitya Academy Award in 1969 for this novel. It portrays socio-politico-economic conditions in the village life of India by representing it coupled with satire in a style of rural fiction and remarkable reality.