Satish Acharya is a professional cartoonist from India. He has been drawing cartoons for the last 24 years, 12 years of them as a professional cartoonist.An untrained cartoonist with no formal art training, cartooning has been his passion, hobby and now his profession. He got his first break as a political cartoonist with English tabloid Midday. He started working with Midday in 2003 He contributes to Mail Today(Delhi), Sify.com, Sports Illustrated, Bollywood Hungama.com, International Indian, Subah Savere, Star of Mysore, Legal Era etc .
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Kanika Mishra got her Masters in Fine Arts from Lucknow College of Arts. A specific incident on 31st August 2013, gave way to her anger and frustration to create India’s first cartoon woman character ‘Karnika Kahen’ which means ” Karnika speaks”. Karnika believes that women have equal rights to speak on every social and political issues in country and being a women, she is more sensitive about issues related to women. Her cartoons on Godman Asaram faced lots of criticism and she even faced rape and murder threats from Godman’s followers. Later, she became the first woman to win prestigious Award for Courage in Cartooning from Cartoonists Rights Network International along with Mazda Shaheen of Palestine. She represented Indian women in international TV show The Big Debate in Davos. Her cartoons have been published in many national and international magazines and seen by millions and her work has become an […]