Thanks to Chapati Mystery , one of my favourite blogs, I came across ' Adarsh Balak ', an art project by Priyesh Trivedi . It's a satire on classroom posters from my childhood. Most of them were badly illustrated and seemed to have been designed by people with little education and even less imagination. Unfortunately it's satirical only if you grew up privileged and had the benefit of a private education. So it's really just an in-joke for the upper-middle class. There are some examples of these posters below, after the art work. In the piece below, the large word in the background spells 'Swag' in Hindi and the chain around his neck says 'YOLO'. Based on the alphabet posters. This one says (pretty much) ' T for Toke'. 'Adarsh Balak' is translated as 'An Ideal Boy' in the poster below. This is still a top selling poster (my guess is that Williamsburg is their biggest market) for the Indian Book Depot , whi...
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