Bureaucrat M K Kaw pens anthology of satire

A collection of humorous and witty pieces written during a span of four decades by M K Kaw, a senior IAS officer, has been turned into a satirical book, 'Kaw Caw Silly Point: A wonky look at Contemporary India'.
The book was released by senior politician and MP, Murli Manohar Joshi here late last evening.
Kaw, who has previously penned "Bureaucrazy Gets Crazier" (2012), meanders across realms of wit and sarcasm and knocks down individuals and institutions with merry abandon in the book published by Konark Pvt Ltd.
'Kaw Caw Silly Point' sees him lampooning 'netas', 'babus', 'jarnails', Kashmiris, the generation ill at ease with gizmos and gadgets and the ageing Methuselahs obsessed with disease and death.

"The book is a collection of articles which I've written over four decades. I started writing 'Kaw Caw' as a column in 1982 for the Times of India and later for other newspapers. 'Silly Point' is more recent, I started writing a monthly column in 'G-Files', a special magazine about governance issues in India", M K Kaw said.
The bureaucrat has worked closely as a cabinet secretary with Joshi during his tenure as the Human Resource Development Minister, launching vital schemes like the 'Sarva Shiksha Abhiyaan'. It was during this time that government proposed a reservation for Kashmiri Pandit students in management and engineering colleges.

"This book is more about India, the entire wit and humour gives you a picture of the society, of economy and the politics. He is presenting through the art of wit and humour a 'wonky look at contemporary India'", the senior BJP leader said.
"Mr Kaw is not only a person with wit and humour in writing, but also in organizing the release of the book, where he invited me, a very non-humorous person to launch a very witty book, this I think is one of the biggest satire", Murli Manohar Joshi said.