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Sudhir Tailang, a Padma Shri awardee (he got it in 2004,) is what I would call a visual thinker. Tailang currently works with Asian Age, but similar to Mario Miranda, he started his career with The Illustrated Weekly of India.
Tailang worked mainly with The Hindustan Times (I am a Time of India reader but for a short time, way back in the 90s and early 2000s, I had subscribed to the HT for a limited time. I remember seeing his cartoons then. When you look at cartoons and you yourself like to draw, you tend to look at the name of the artist when you like a drawing. So I remember looking at his name and thinking that he was cool.
While his line-work is different from Mario‘s, or Ninan‘s, or even Laxman‘s; Tailang’s humor cuts through it all and reaches you; and for a cartoonist, the message is always more important than the visual.
Find a collection of his cartoons at:
http://www.asianage.com/category/author/sudhir-tailang-1
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| Cartoonist Sudhir Tailang passes away |
(Bindu Shajan Perappadan)
He recently launched a book of cartoons titled "No, Prime Minister", a set of cartoons on former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
Cartoonist Sudhir Tailang, who was suffering from a brain tumour, passed away on Saturday, at a private city hospital according to his family members. The artist was 55 and had been under treatment for over two years.
His family said that the cartoonist breathed his last at 12.30 p.m. and is to be cremated at 2 p.m. on Sunday at Lodhi Road crematorium.
Doctors at Medanta Hospital in Gurgaon where he died said: “Tailang was under treatment for the last two years. He was in hospital for more than a month and his family was told that chances of his recovery weren’t bright.''
He was suffering from GBM-4 stage brain tumour and had undergone two surgeries and chemotherapy during the course of his treatment over two years.
He was awarded the Padma Shri in 2004 for his contribution to the art of cartooning.
Born in Bikaner, Mr. Tailang came out with his first cartoon in 1970. He started his career with the Illustrated Weekly of India in Mumbai, in 1982. A year later, he joined the Navbharat Times in New Delhi. He had worked with all major English newspapers including the Hindustan Times , the Times of India and the Indian Express . His last assignment was with the Asian Age .
There was hardly any known personality in political world or other sphere of life who could escape his brush.
Mourning the loss of “a good adviser and well-wisher”, the Kerala Cartoon Academy said he represented the cartoon fraternity and floated top among Indian cartoonists with a different style.
(With inputs from IANS)
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Launched on Nov 29 2006, now 2,100+ posts...This bilingual blog - in Marathi- is largely a celebration of visual and/or comic ... ..George Santayana: " Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence"...William Hazlitt: "Pictures are scattered like stray gifts through the world; and while they remain, earth has yet a little gilding."
G C Lichtenberg: “It is as if our languages were confounded: when we want a thought, they bring us a word; when we ask for a word, they give us a dash; and when we expect a dash, there comes a piece of bawdy.”
C. P. Cavafy: "I’d rather look at things than speak about them."
Martin Amis: “Gogol is funny, Tolstoy in his merciless clarity is funny, and Dostoyevsky, funnily enough, is very funny indeed; moreover, the final generation of Russian literature, before it was destroyed by Lenin and Stalin, remained emphatically comic — Bunin, Bely, Bulgakov, Zamyatin. The novel is comic because life is comic (until the inevitable tragedy of the fifth act);...”
Kenneth Goldsmith: "In 1969 the conceptual artist Douglas Huebler wrote, “The world is full of objects, more or less interesting; I do not wish to add any more.”1 I’ve come to embrace Huebler’s ideas, though it might be retooled as “The world is full of texts, more or less interesting; I do not wish to add any more.” It seems an appropriate response to a new condition in writing today: faced with an unprecedented amount of available text, the problem is not needing to write more of it; instead, we must learn to negotiate the vast quantity that exists. How I make my way through this thicket of information—how I manage it, how I parse it, how I organize and distribute it—is what distinguishes my writing from yours."
Sudhir Tailang Is Making Shankar New!
Ezra Pound: Make It NewWalt Whitman: “Do I repeat myself? Very well then, I repeat myself.”André Gide: “Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again.”John Barth:
"And originality—“making it new”—has many forms. The mainspring of Somadeva’s (??????) epical eleventh-century Sanskrit tale-cycle, Kátha sarit ságara ??? ???? ????, or “Ocean of the Streams of Story” (longer than Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey combined), is the goddess Parvati’s request that her consort Siva, as her reward for a particularly divine session of love-making, tell her a story that no one has ever heard before or will ever hear again. In fact, however, the multi-volume “Great Tale” that her lord comes up with includes whole cycles of earlier tales, such as the centuries-old Panchatantra ???????? (“Five Principles”) and the Vetalapanchavimsati ??????????????? (“Twenty-five Tales of a Vampire”). And Siva’s tale is overheard by one of the house-servants, who repeats it to his wife, who repeats it to Parvati, who is so incensed by the violation of her for-my-ears-only contract that many consequences follow—including, fortunately, the Great Tale’s transcription and its passage down the ages to us."I have already written a post on the NCERT cartoon issue.Cartoonist Sudhir Tailang has been agitated over this. His agitation is understandable because this issue was preceded by Mamata Banerjee cartoon issue.I have already hailed Mr. Tailang as the best political cartoonist in India today.And here is another example why.
If you have still not seen Shankar's NCERT cartoon, you can see it here.Now watch following cartoon by Mr. Tailang.Although I on an average see more than a funny picture almost every day, seldom I laugh out loud. Especially when I am alone.This picture made me laugh really loud when I was alone. I did not expect the artist to go out on this limb.This is Mr. Tailang's tribute to the late Mr. Shankar. The only major difference between the two pictures is the presence / absence of people of India. For some reason, Mr. Tailang's picture doesn't have them.I see a design even there.Politicians were accessible then. Now they aren't.Taya Zinkin, (1918-2003) a prominent English journalist and author writes“I watched Nehru who had been so accessible even after his country became independent, become increasingly isolated, until one day in Amritsar, an old man who only wanted to touch his feet and receive darshan was nearly killed by a lathi and was carried away by the police in mufti. I watched the slow erosion power works on those who enjoy it and slowly, one by one, I lost my old friends in politics. Constructive criticism, at first welcome, soon grew sour compared with the sycophancy of those who had axes to grind and beds to feather. Power corrupts because it isolates and because in the modern world there is no room for the traditional fool of Shakespearian days.”(“Sahibs Who Loved India” Ed. Khushwant Singh)Therefore you now have no one watching them when they are whipping India's 'snail' economy unlike then when they were creating India's constitution!Remember, Dr. Manmohan Singh is NOT whipping Mr. Pranab Mukherjee. He is about whip the snail. (Even that looks cruel to me now!)
Kenneth Goldsmith: “The literary critic Marjorie Perloff has recently begun using the term unoriginal genius to describe this tendency emerging in literature. Her idea is that, because of changes brought on by technology and the Internet, our notion of genius—a romantic isolated figure—is outdated. An updated notion of genius would have to center around one’s mastery of information and its dissemination. Perloff has coined a term, moving information, to signify both the act of pushing language around as well as the act of being emotionally moved by that process. She posits that today’s writer resembles more a programmer than a tortured genius, brilliantly conceptualizing, constructing, executing, and maintaining a writing machine.”…Will Self: “To attempt to write seriously is always, I feel, to fail – the disjunction between my beautifully sonorous, accurate and painfully affecting mental content, and the leaden, halting sentences on the page always seems a dreadful falling short. It is this failure – a ceaseless threnody keening through the writing mind – that dominates my working life, just as an overweening sense of not having loved with enough depth or recklessness or tenderness dominates my personal one.” ...John Berger: “Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak. But there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it. The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled.”... Mark Twain: "Oh, dear me, how unspeakably funny and owlishly idiotic and grotesque was that “plagiarism” farce! As if there was much of anything in any human utterance except plagiarism!... For substantially all ideas are second-hand, consciously and unconsciously drawn from a million outside sources.”… John Crowley: "Meanwhile the real world then, no matter what, will be as racked with pain and insufficiency as any human world at any time. It just won’t be racked by the same old pains and insufficiencies; it will be strange. It is forever unknowably strange, its strangeness not the strangeness of fiction or of any art or any guess but absolute. That’s its nature."...Hilary Mantel: “It’s for Shakespeare to penetrate the heart of a prince, and for me to study his cuff buttons.”… Ingmar Bergman: "It is my opinion that art lost its basic creative drive the moment it was separated from worship. It severed an umbilical cord and now lives its own sterile life"... Graham Greene: "Kim Philby betrayed his country-yes, perhaps he did, but who among us has not committed treason to something or someone more important than a country?"... Friedrich Schlegel: "Hercules…labored too…But the goal of his career was really always a sublime leisure, and for that reason he became one of the Olympians. Not so this Prometheus, the inventor of education and enlightenment…Because he seduced mankind into working, [he] now has to work himself, whether he wants to or not"... Walt Whitman: “Do I repeat myself? Very well then, I repeat myself.”...W H Auden: "…though one cannot always/ Remember exactly why one has been happy,/ There is no forgetting that one was"...Walter de la Mare: "No, No, Why further should we roam / Since every road man Journeys by, / Ends on a hillside far from Home / Under an alien sky"...People are always talking about originality, but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us, and this goes on to the end. What can we call our own except energy, strength, and will? If I could give an account of all that I owe to great predecessors and contemporaries, there would be but a small balance in my favor. — Goethe… It’s not where you take things from — it’s where you take them to. — Jean-Luc Godard… G. A. Kulkarni: "Over these unremembered marble columns, Birds glide their old remembered way, Dive in red-gold setting tide And write dark alphabets on evening sky; Whether an epitaph, chorus or strange augury - little man you only hope to know!"
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Sudhir Tailang at launch of RK Laxman’s book at Delhi book fair. (Photo Courtesy: Twitter/sudhirtailang)
Born in Bikaner, Rajasthan, Sudhir breathed his last in Medanta hospital, Gurgaon.
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Sudhir Tailang (right) with patriarch of cartooning Shankar Pillai (Left) on 31 July’86. Pillai inaugrated his 1st solo show on his 84th birthday. (Photo Courtesy: Twitter/sudhirtailang)
Tailang had been battling brain tumour for the last two years. He had recently released his book of cartoons titled ‘No, Prime Minister’.
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| Sudhir Tailang, One of India |
Sudhir Tailang, One of India’s Finest Cartoonist Passes Away at 55
Born in Bikaner, Rajasthan, Sudhir breathed his last in Medanta hospital, Gurgaon.
Sudhir Tailang is one of India’s finest political cartoonists, passed away on 6th February 2016. Known for his unique drawing style and unsparing satire, Sudhir Tailang kick-started his career with the Illustrated Weekly of India in 1982.
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He was a great man Vibha Tailang ma'am. Although we had never met I admired his work.
Vibha Tailang what I loved about him is the fact that he was/is not only honest but also fearless and had great courage of conviction to stand up and speak out no matter how powerful the individual or institution may be. That's a rare quality in people nowadays and very few embody and practice these values today in a world full of apathetic people.
- Jeroninio Almeida
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| Sudhir Tailang could turn ink into blood |
New Delhi: when Sudhir Tailang wielded his brush like a weapon the ink could turn to blood. His was not an easy job, he would say. On his blog he repeated one of his favourite lines, that though he had to work very hard he could always count on the politicians to work for him full-time.
PMs and Presidents would ask him for copies of his drawings. During Kandahar episode he drew Jaswant Singh in Taliban attire and, Sudhir said, the then minister, far from offended, sought the signed original.
But my favourite was the one that showed Lalu Prasad Yadav, his hair like a pile of hay, looking around and saying “Fodder? What fodder?”
He began with Indira Gandhi early in his career and thereafter spared no one. No subject was taboo and even an incomplete list of his assassinations would require a lengthy chargesheet.
Sudhir would have wanted us to find some humour even in his death. I have tried, unsuccessfully, for the better part of the day. Many artists are cut down in their prime but Sudhir would have known, as many of his breed do, that he would live in his work.
He believed there were few real cartoonists left. Actually, by his death that special species is extinct. We revelled in his fame for he belonged to us. God is laughing up there now that he has him for company.
He will find out sooner than later that Sudhir Tailang is used to having the last laugh. Rest in peace, my friend...
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| Deccan Chronicle cartoonist Sudhir Tailang is no more |
New Delhi: Sudhir Tailang was deeply suspicious of all authority. And he was completely unafraid. This is what made him India’s finest contemporary political cartoonist.
A career of over three decades was cruelly cut short by brain cancer on February 6. Sudhir would have been 56 on February 26.
He would have been brave to the end but he would not have failed to ask God why. It was an old trait, this challenging of authority, one that we his colleagues had experienced time and again.
He had an air of old Bikaner, where he was born and which remained in his heart.
The years of drawing for various leading newspapers of the country had honed his paintbrush to a rapier points always seeking the tenderest spot, pricking, thrusting, never a wild slash.
There was nuance but never so subtle that it would escape his audience.
He could be gentle with his victim, and congratulatory very rarely.
Toons inspired Sudhir to wield the brush
Eminent cartoonist Sudhir Tailang succumbed to brain cancer on Saturday after battling it for almost two years. Tailang, who was associated with The Asian Age and Deccan Chronicle, would have turned 56 on February 26.
Survived by his wife and daughter, Tailang had been under treatment for brain cancer since 2014 and breathed last at his East Delhi residence in Mayur Vihar.
The cartoonist, who had a long association with a number of newspapers, was admitted to Medanta Medicity Hospital in Gurgaon in December but was brought home around a month ago.
Read: Strokes of genius
Tailang was awarded a Padma Shri in 2004. As a cartoonist, many politicians including Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi, Atal Behari Vajpayee, P.V. Narasimha Rao, Manmohan Singh and Narendra Modi bore the brunt of his brush.
Mr Tailang, who was born in Rajasthan’s Bikaner on February 26, 1960, had his first cartoon published in a newspaper at the age of 10 in 1970.
It was in 1982, when he got his first major break in Illustrated Weekly of India, Mumbai.
As a child, Tailang was fascinated by comics such as Tintin, Phantom and Blondie, which is known to have encouraged him to go for drawing cartoons.
For several years he was with HT and Indian Express also.
He was with the The Asian Age and Deccan Chronicle as Associate Editor and Political Cartoonist when he died.
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| Note from the cartoonist Sudhir Tailang |
In more than 25 years of my cartooning , not a single politician has changed or reformed because of my cartoons! Yet, I trust the power of the cartoon. I have no doubt that a cartoon does exactly what it is meant to— play the role of the common man’s spokesperson. Give voice to the voiceless mute masses.
Bikaner is a politically orphaned city with a peaceful populace with no aggressive protest methods. There were 3 daily trains running between Delhi and Bikaner for more than 50 years. For the past 5 years the gauge conversion has been going on at a snail’s pace and with no hope of it being completed in the near future.
And hence, no chances of the trains to be back on tracks!
We formed Friends Of Bikaner to raise our voice in a very peaceful way.
We have raised it in the best medium I know—cartooning!
Shri Kunal Lalani, who has the same passion and love for our home Bikaner, immediately got enthused! And in just two days he organized everything– and the Mamata Banerjee cartoon hoarding is up at five locations in Delhi.
Are you watching Mamata Didi? I am sure once in a while Ministers listen to peaceful voices too. Let’s see!
This unique and novel way of protest has been used for the first time. A cartoon to register protest and make the Minister sit up and take notice.
Cartooning IS the art of protest. It’s the most authentic voice of dissent . But a hoarding to send a message across – is done for the first time.
Through this cartoon we demand fast completion of gauge conversion and immediate resumption of the daily direct trains between Delhi and Bikaner.
Sudhir Tailang
Note from the Cartoonist.doc Note from the Cartoonist.doc
I add my voice with you all, as Sudhirji's wife and as a I am a bahu of Bikaner ....good wishes to you and Bikaner....Vibha Tailang...MAMTAJI ARE YOU LISTENING???!!!...23/2/10
I CAN SEE MANY NEWS CHANNELS AND NEWSPAPERS HAS COVERED SUDHIRJI'S(ITS SUDHIRJI'S IDEA) AND MR. KUNAL LALLANI's(SPONSER) EFFORTs(HIS CARTOONS HOARDING WHICH ARE PLACED IN 5 PLACES OF DELHI by MR LALLANI'S AD AGENCY)....I HOPE HE GOT THE RESULT, AS IT IS A GENUINE AND REASONABLE WISH FOR OUR HOME TOWN...JUST WAIT AND WATCH...AAGE-AAGE HOTA HAI QUA???
#..IN LAST 5 YRS LINE CONVERSION FROM SMALL GAJE TO BROAD GAJE IS DONE FROM DELHI TO RATANGARH WHICH IS 283KMs FROM DELHI....RATANGARH IS 180 KMs FROM BIKANER....GOOD NEWS IS MS MAMTA BANERJEEJI HAS ANNOUNCED IN RAILWAY BUDGET THAT WITHIN 2010-2011...180KMs CONVERSION OF LINE FROM BIKANER TO RATANGARH WILL ALSO BE COMPLETED....LETS WAIT AND WATCH HOW IT CAN HAPPEN WITHIN A YEAR, WHEN 283KMs TOOK 5YRS?? ....DEFINITLY NEED A FAST PACE(IF IT HAPPEN WITHIN A YEAR OR 18 MONTHS THAT WILL BE A MIRACLE!!)...HOPE FOR THE BEST. WAIT AND WATCH...AAGE AAGE HOTA HAI QUA...!!! GOOD WISHES TO SUDHIRJI/KUNALJI ...ALL WELL WISHER AND BIKANER.BIKANER AND ITS RESIDENTS REALLY NEED A TRAIN TO AND FRO FROM DELHI...IT INCLUDES US ALSO!!
GOOD TO SEE NEWS IN ETV...SHOWING A CARTOON HOARDING MADE BY SOME ONE IN BIKANER, WHICH HAS SUDHIRJI (as character)ASKING FOR A TRAIN FROM MAMTAJI...INTERESTING TO SEE A CARTOONIST HIMSELF AS A NEWS IN A CARTOON....!! HE IS IN NEWS AND TALK OF THE TOWN IN BIKANER AND RAJASTHAN...FOR A RIGHT REASON...LOTS OF OLD FRIENDS ALSO CALLED HIM UP AFTER 23rd...his interview on LIVE INDIA on 24th with 4 ex railway ministers...Shri Lalluji, Shri Ramvilasji, Shri Ramnayakji...and of course Ms Mamtaji. Good wishes to Sudhirji...I am always there in support of his all good efforts... personal and for good causes IN PRESENT AND FUTURE. GOOD TO SEE HIS FAMILY/FRIENDS...AND ALL RAJASTHANI'S ARE PROUD OF HIM...SO AS OTHER CITIZEN'S OF OUR COUNTRY...I AM SURE!!!...HUMEIN BHI FAKRH HAI...GARV HAI.
YESTERDAY ON THE 26th FEB 2010...good to see him on INDIA TV and AASTHA CHANNEL with BABA RAMDEV...discussing and drawing cartoons LIVE on the UNION BUDGET...HE IS A GOOD SPEAKER.
Good News for Bikanerwasi staying here in Delhi...on 9/3/10...its in newspapers that Mamtadi has announced few new trains in Loksabha which were added after Railway Budget...and it has Delhi-Sarai Rohilla-Bikaner Express via Sadulpur...twice in a week....Good kuch nahin se kuch bhala...thanks Mamtaji.
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| Remembering Sudhir Tailang, cartoonist with passion for life |
Sudhir Tailang at the launch of book , India - The Future is Now, in Delhi on April 30, 2013.(Waseem Gashroo/ HT file photo)
Hindustan Times | ByNarayanan Madhavan
We shared many things: A Mumbai local train, jokes and mirchi-wali roti. But I am sad that I could not meet Sudhir Tailang in his last year of life, despite his being only a mile away from where I lived.
We met in the training room of the Times of India, Mumbai, then Bombay. He had joined six months earlier as a trainee journalist in Hindi, while I was an English language trainee. As it turned out, his cartooning skills were so good that the establishment suggested he become a Trainee Cartoonist. I don’t recall there ever being another trainee cartoonist anywhere.
He took to the task with delight--and the task of being a “Hindi” cartoonist (Do cartoons have language?) in the same company and floor as the venerable R K Laxman was a daunting one. But Sudhir took up the challenge with a dedication that never left him.
We talked news and cartoons a lot. Myself from Delhi and he from Bikaner were both lost souls in the mangled urban wilderness of Bombay, struggling to put ourselves into its machine-like routines. We both would squeeze into the Harbour Line local train from the King’s Circle station. We simply could not get into the Central Line. Inside the crowd, we would discuss everything under the sun, but his passion for cartooning was often a theme.
Later, we both shifted to the Delhi office of the same company.
Being a cartoonist for Navbharat Times, he had the luxury of a corner cabin, where we would meet for quiet lunches from our tiffin boxes. It was during those days that he announced he wanted to create a character resembling Laxman’s Common Man. “Hum usko journalist banate hain, jholewala,” he said. So a jhola journalist was born in his cartoons as an observer of the world around him. As it turned out, he fashioned it after Sushil, one of his goatee-bearded journalist friends who used to drop by. Somewhere along his career, the jhola journalist character disappeared, perhaps in keeping with the waning of the stereotype.
One day he showed some mirchi-ki-roti, a Bikaner special item that was somewhat crunchy. You could make it a meal or a tea-time snack, he said, but best had with tea. Then he would take me to the Inter State Bus Terminus because that’s where you could get a thali that reminded him of home. Then he got married, and I attended his wedding in a far corner of Delhi. The girl was a student-admirer he fell in love with. His passion showed everywhere.
(There was one particular incident where he roped in a friend to pose as Mani Shankar Aiyer, who was then a diplomat close to then prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, and rang up to meet me. I thought there was something interesting for a journalist and turned up to meet Mr Aiyer at his home early in the morning only to be told by an annoyed Aiyer that somebody had been playing a prank by sending people to meet him. I caught Sudhir out because someone had told me the internal office extension sounded two rings, and I now knew it was not an external call. I observed Sudhir’s movements and the grin on his face and knew it was him).
Suddenly, he left Navbharat Times to become an English language cartoonist, and we lost direct touch but his work was everywhere. His works were particularly noticed in the Hindustan Times and then the Asian Age. He prepared to switch to English for a wider audience, and surprised us with his increasingly smooth English captions that were clearly an acquired skill.
The boy who would look up with envy to Laxman was suddenly in the same league--certainly for someone so young.
We would meet now and then socially but time flew as we moved in different professional orbits.
Social media brought us together again, and we were chatting on Twitter decades later, like old times. I had hoped that I would release a book of my political verses with his sketches. Alas, that was not to be.
One day, I heard he had a cancerous growth. As I got caught up in some stuff, I tried to raise some help for him by hollering out on Twitter, but clearly, it was time to go.
It is my deep regret I could not see him in his last days.
I hope his soul somewhere up there forgives me, the way I forgave his prank. Though I never told him I had actually been fooled by him.
Tailang’s cremation will be held at 2 pm at the Lodhi crematorium, Delhi, on Sunday, February 7.
(Narayanan Madhavan is a senior journalist with Hindustan Times.)
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| In Memoriam: Sudhir Tailang's cartoons were incisive and spared no one |
Sudhir Tailang has been always one step ahead of me. When I joined The Times of India he had already left for The Hindustan Times... all I could meet was the easel Sudhir bhai used to work on. Those were the days of cartoons produced with India Ink, brush, nibs or Rotrings. The pen and ink days; Photoshop had not arrived.
Over the years, I had several opportunities to meet the man in the black shirt. I think wearing a black shirt to all his social outings was part of the black and white attitude he had towards politicians and politics. No grey areas.
Politicians who followed his cartoons closely were both his harshest critics and his greatest fans. In fact, the complainants were those who were not featured in his cartoons. A particular neta of national level once called him just to ask why he is not featured in his cartoons... was he not popular enough?
Sudhir bhai's creative genius was not only in drawing cartoons. I was surprised to see his artwork painted on the wall of a restaurant in Noida, which belonged to our common friend Gunjan Bansal. Strictly for close friends only, I guess.
In 2012, at the launch of one of his books in Delhi, two leaders from the rival parties of UPA and NDA shared the stage with him. In fact, they actually flanked him. Both the leaders had no problems with each other since they had one thing in common: both were victims of Tailang's cartoons. His cartooons were incisive and spared no one.
My wow moment with Sudhir Tailang was in 2013 when The Times Of India launched the book of cartoons called Jest in Time. To make the launch unique, we wanted some of the top Indian cartoonists to come together and create a cartoon on stage. Ninan, Keshav, Jayanto, Manjul, Prasad, Tailang and I were part of this event but the extempore on stage cartoon on India could not have been possible without Sudhir Tailang's participation. Drawn on a large board, the original still lies with The Times of India.
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