The exhibition is being organised in memory of Sri Shankar Pillai [ Born: July 31, 1902: Demise: December 26, 1989 ]. Father of Indian Cartooning, as Sri Shankar Pillai was popularly known as, he had an itch for the art of cartooning since his childhood. While he was studying in college, he regularly contributed his cartoons to The Bombay Chronicle, The Free Press Journal, The Weekly Herald.
Appreciating his works, Mr. Pothan Joseph, Editor of The Hindustan Times, offered him a job of Staff Cartoonist in 1932. Sri Shankar quit the newspaper to start his own ‘Shankar’s Weekly’, India’s first and only journal of Political Cartoons in 1948. The Weekly became a training ground for many brilliant cartoonists of the country.
Sri Shankar had to his credit many prestigious awards including Padma Vibhushan from the Govt. of India in 1976.
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