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Rajinder Puri is a columnist, cartoonist and political activist. He was on the staff of Hindustan Times and The Statesman as a cartoonist and writer. Earlier he was in London and drew cartoons briefly for The Guardian, and later The Glasgow Herald. For over two decades he has been a freelance journalist and his work has appeared regularly in all the leading dailies and weeklies of India. He has authored four earlier books on politics. He was for some time underground during the Emergency. He became a founder general secretary of the Janata party in 1977, and was the campaign publicity in charge during the general election. Later he became a founder general secretary of Lok Dal, and a member of the national executive in BJP. In 1985 he became founder president of Ekta Party, which later dissolved and merged with Janmorcha. Since 1990 he has not been attached with any political party. At present he works from Delhi and writes a weekly column for Outlook weekly.