This writer is one of the 12 obscure readers who comic Sorabh Pant imagined will read his new and first non-fiction release, Vote for Pant But, Don’t! (Rupa Publications). She also identifies as a member of the unprofessed club of hard-to-offend humans. Now although qualities — of products of a thinking mind and in people — are relative, a declaration of intent is fair beyond doubt. Pant’s foreword is suitably titled Disclaimer. And it is here that you decide if you want to read on further. It can hover for its plain-spoken writing, blunt comment on socio-political matters, and open admission of a common man’s struggle to comprehend government reforms. But above all, its sense of satire prevails.

A word of advice: The book can rile up zealots.