Everything about Jug Suraiya totally explained
Jug Suraiya is the
Associate Editor of the
Times of India,
Delhi, an
author besides being a
columnist.
He had his schooling in
La Martiniere Calcutta.
Columns
He writes the columns
Jugular Vein which appears in the Sunday editions of the Times of India , a second column
Second Opinion appears once or twice during the week, the and the cartoon strip
Dubyaman which earlier used to appear daily . Jugular Vein covers everything from mundane to serious things that happen to people in everyday life, and to the travels tales of Suraiya and wife Bunny to other places and countries.
Khushwant Singh calls him "our own
Art Buchwald" . He is a writer distinguished for the satire, wit and humour in his writings. Suraiya reflects on his personal reminiscences while drawing astounding parallels of some of the most famous personalities or gently touching at the absurdities, which have become part and parcel of our lives.
Cartoon strip
Post
9/11 Suraiya created a daily cartoon in the Times of India called
Dubyaman with
Neelabh Banerjee staff artist of The Times of India. It is loosely based on
US President George W Bush. According to Suraiya, he first thought of Dubyaman as a kind of a superman type hero who would signify the military might and muscle of America, but unfortunately has the brain of a George W. Bush, thereby making him more dangerous. The idea was to show that far from being some sort of a superpatriot, this man could be a potential danger, not just to his supposed enemies, but also to his friends and to his own country's people. Slowly but steadily Dubyaman has got a local flavour where Jug frequently makes fun of Indian politicians.
He became the first Asian to win the
Pacific Asia Travel Association gold award, in 1983 , for travel writing.
Anthologies of his humorous writings
- Delhi Belly and other misadventures in the middle kingdom (1991)
- A Taste for the Jugular (1994))
- The Great Indian Bores (1996)
- Juggling Act (2005)
- A Tika for Jung Bahadur (2006)
Books on travel and non fiction
The interview and other stories (1971)
Homecoming (1977)
Rickshaw Ragtime (1993)
Word Is a Four-Letter Word: Selected Writings (1994)
A Portable India (co authored with Anurag Mathur) (1994)
Mind Matters (2003)
Where on Earth Am I? - Confusions of a Travelling Man (2004)
Calcutta: A City Remembered (2005)
Suraiya lives in Delhi with his wife Bunny and Brindle, who is, according to Suraiya, a stray dog who adopted the couple four years ago.
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