Metaphorically speaking, if the pen is like a sword in the hands of a writer, what is a pencil in the hands of a cartoonist? Few would argue that the pencil has often proved to be sharper than the pen. E.P. Unny, one of India's foremost political cartoonists, has been providing us through his 'Business as Usual' pocket-book cartoons in The Indian Express his reflections on contemporary India’s trials and tribulations on a daily basis. However, Unny also uses his pencil for sketching people, places and creations in myriad fields often combining with scripts that are as sharp as his sketches.