Cartoonist Sudhir Dar dies at 87
New Delhi, November 26
Award-winning Indian cartoonist Sudhir Dar died on Tuesday morning after suffering a cardiac arrest, his family said. He was 87.
Dar, whose works appeared in various newspapers in a career spread over 58 years, was among the second generation editorial cartoonists who were active from the 1960s to 2000.
Dar, a Kashmiri, was born in Allahabad in 1932 and he earned a Master’s in Geography from the University of Allahabad. He began his cartoonist’s career with The Statesman in 1961 and did pocket cartoon on Page one—’Out of My Mind’.
He worked with Hindustan Times and The Pioneer. In 2000, he retired to work as a freelancer. — IANS
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