At issue is the fact that the book lampoons Bal Thackeray, a Mumbai kingpin who founded the Hindu nationalist Shiv Sena party over four decades ago. |
It also experienced severe financial setbacks, rioting, verbal and physical abuse, and lampoons in city papers. |
The joke lampoons behaviorists' claim that inner experiences — emotions, thoughts, memories, plans, images — are somehow less real than outward behavior, and hence as unscientific as ghosts and fairies. |
It's also so jam-packed with pop culture references and media lampoons that it runs the risk of insulting or isolating the very audience it is trying to entreat. |
An early example of this was Bizarre, a show that seemed intent on shocking, not least by a liberal sprinkling of the f-word in its irreverent sketches and lampoons. |
A 1926 postcard lampoons the reaction of two English motorists seeing a sign for Llanfairpwllgwyngyll on the road to Holyhead. |