| Manick Sorcar is undoubtedly a top expresser of the
US Indian immigrant experience. His illustrations, touching
the heart of cultural integration challenges, are compiled
in two volumes--The Melting Pot, Indians in America, and Spices
in the Melting Pot. |
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-Hinduism Today, August 1998
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"Let us laugh at ourselves...Manick
Sorcar is a necessary by-product of the first generation
of immigrants' teething troubles in the United States...(his
cartoons) illuminate the viewer with a smile and raise a
hearty chuckle" |
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-India Tribune, Chicago, USA
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Here we see another aspect of Sorcar's engagement with newsprint.
His cartoons are based on his immigrant experiences in America.
In the early 1980s, over two dozen newspapers and magazines
published Sorcar's hilarious cartoons.
Sorcar has published two books of cartoons highlighting the
rib-tickling aspects of the day to day lives of Indian-Americans.
The first was The Melting Pot:
Indians in America and the second was Spices
in the Melting Pot. |
"...His cartoons serve the therapeutic function of letting
others know that they ar not suffering alone, but that many
Indians face the same dilemmas and compromises" |
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- India
West, California, 1982
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His cartoons have appeared in dozens of newspapers and magazines
including India Abroad, AIINA (Asian Indians in North America),
The Link, Hinduism Today, India West, India Tribune, NABC Magazines,
Antorik, Ananda Bazar Patrika, Paribartan, Desh among many
others. He is currently writing his third cartoon book which will
be released in late 2004.
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The
Melting Pot: Indians in America
 A
popular compilation of cartoons depicting the lives of first generation
South Asians in America. |
Spices
in the Melting Pot
 A
highly successful compilation of cartoons depicting the lives of
second generation South Asians and funny incidents surrounding their
everyday lives. |
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