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An excellent political satirist, Yesudasan has written three books - 'Aniyara',
'Pradhama Dhrusti' and 'Post Mortem'. And his latest book 'Varayile Nayanar', a
collection of cartoons on the late Chief Minister of Kerala, Shri EK Nayanar was
released by Dr Manmohan Singh, the Honourable Prime Minister of India.
Yesudasan has also made a reputation as a script-writer for Malayalam films. He
is the founder chairman of Kerala Cartoon Academy and twice the chairman of
Kerala Lalithakala Akademi.
An excellent political satirist, Yesudasan may be one of the few
cartoonists in the country who handles the maximum number of columns a day -
in both Malayalam and English.
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Yesudasan Email: contact@yesudasan.info Web: www.yesudasan.info
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Yesudasan was born on June 12, 1938 at Mavelikkara, Kerala in South India. His
first cartoon appeared in 1955 in a magazine called 'Asoka' published from
Kottayam. But it was only in 1960, he made an entry into the world of political
cartooning, that too through 'Janayugam', the mouth-piece of the Communist
Party in Kerala. In Janayugam he started a regular cartoon column with the
character 'Kittumman', which became the first pocket cartoon in Malayalam.
In 1963, he left for Delhi to join the Shankar's Weekly and became a disciple of
cartoonist Shankar, the legend of Indian cartooning. On returning to his native
place, he became the editor of 'Balayugam' and later started 'Asadhu', 'Cut-Cut',
'Tuk-Tuk' and 'Sadhu', popular satirical magazines on politics and cinema, in
similar lines with Shankar's Weekly. In 1985, he joined the Malayala Manorama
group of publications as a staff cartoonist.
