Indian Cartoonists

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 23. Chapters: Bal Thackeray, Abid Surti, O. V. Vijayan, Janardhana Swamy, K. Shankar Pillai, Mario Miranda, Abu Abraham, B. M. Gafoor, Kutty, Usman Irumpuzhi, Pran Kumar Sharma, Toms, K.K. Raghava, Mohd Fouzuddin, Chittaprosad Bhattacharya, Shekhar Gurera, Vasant Sarwate, Shankar Pamarthy, Shubham Gupta, Triambak sharma, Sharad Sharma, Shivram Dattatreya Phadnis, Manjul, Madhan, P. K. Manthri, Mohan Sivanand, Shekar, Sudhir Tailang, N. Ponnappa, Maya Kamath, A. S. Nair, Tulal, Prakash Shetty, Yesudasan, Prriya Raj, Indian Institute of Cartoonists, E. P. Unni, Ravi Shankar, Gopikrishnan, Prabhakar Thokal, Rosho, Sumanta Baruah. Excerpt: Balasaheb Keshav Thackeray (Marathi: pronounced ) (born on 23 January 1926), popularly known as Balasaheb Thackeray, is an Indian politician, founder and chief of the Shiv Sena (Hindu nationalist, Marathi ethnocentric and populist party active mainly in the western Indian state of Maharashtra). Bal Thackeray was born to Keshav Sitaram Thackeray (also known as Prabodhankar Thackeray because of his articles in his fortnightly magazine named Prabodhan or 'Enlightenment') in a lower-middle class, Marathi family. Keshav Thackeray was a progressive social activist and writer who was against caste biases and played a key role in the Samyukta Maharashtra Chalwal (literally, United Maharashtra Movement) in the 1950s to form the Marathi-speaking state of Maharashtra with Mumbai as its capital. Shiv sainiks called them 'Hindu Hriday Samrat' with love(Emperor of Hindu's heart) Bal Thackeray started his career as a cartoonist in the Free Press Journal in Bombay. His cartoons were also published in the Sunday edition of The Times of India. In 1960, he launched a cartoon weekly Marmik with his brother. He used it to campaign against the growing numbers of and influence of non-Marathi people in Bombay targeting ...