Chief political cartoonists with The Indian Express.

May 07, 2004 00:00 IST
If there is someone who has more familial stakes in this election than Sonia Gandhi, it is Karunakaran. People call his family the holy trin...
Fri, May 07, 2004
May 02, 2004 00:00 IST
Post-May 13, they may turn king-makers. But if you wish to know how the Left policy-makers function, come to Plachimada in Kerala’s Pal...
Sun, May 02, 2004
April 29, 2004 00:00 IST
Nelson Mandela comes to Wal Mart-approved town and speaks for a full hour in flowing Tamil. The crowd can’t ask for more. Post-POTA Vai...
Thu, Apr 29, 2004
April 26, 2004 00:00 IST
CHANDRABABU Naidu couldn’t have chosen a better place than Tirupati to wind up an against-the-odds poll campaign. He needs Balaji’...
Mon, Apr 26, 2004
January 09, 2004 00:00 IST
Next to dark glasses, the most common fixture in a Karunanidhi portrait or poster is the pen, hand-held or clipped in his shirt pocket. But ...
Fri, Jan 09, 2004
September 25, 2003 00:00 IST
During her political probation, Sonia Gandhi, like most non-Malayalis would have thought that Kerala Congress is the unit of her own Congres...
Thu, Sep 25, 2003
August 16, 2003 00:00 IST
In the programmed parleys at the symbolic court of south Asian women on trafficking and HIV in Dhaka, two participants made vital connection...
Sat, Aug 16, 2003
June 01, 2003 00:00 IST
The tobacco companies will love this. As another World Anti-Tobacco Day comes and goes, a godman-in-the making sits and puffs away in Hydera...
Sun, Jun 01, 2003
February 05, 2003 00:00 IST
Empty warheads’’ is how an American cartoonist recently described Washington’s war planners. The rest of the doodling gang ha...
Wed, Feb 05, 2003
December 02, 2002 00:00 IST
The earliest memory of Abu is the pocket cartoon ‘Private View’ which had virtually nothing but two Congressmen as permanent fixtu...
Mon, Dec 02, 2002
September 12, 2002 00:00 IST
Last year this time one thing was certain. Osama bin Laden was there to stay — in cartoons. Like most certainties, this one crashed too...
Thu, Sep 12, 2002
July 31, 2002 00:00 IST
Today is Cartoonist Shankar’s birth centenary. Two who could have got together and celebrated it most fittingly are President Kalam and...
Wed, Jul 31, 2002
April 03, 2002 00:00 IST
T.N. Seshan has the best-known one-liner on Palakkad. According to the former Chief Election Commissioner, his hometown rolls out a steady s...
Wed, Apr 03, 2002
January 31, 2001 00:00 IST
Gujarat. Quake. These opening words are enough to put off half the readers. Even more so in the case of Kerala from where I write this. Th...
Wed, Jan 31, 2001
December 26, 1999 00:00 IST
The 20th Century's most elusive creatureIt was Rajiv Gandhi who invented the 21st century for us. He kept insisting that he would take us ...
Sun, Dec 26, 1999
October 09, 1999 00:00 IST
This was our first fully-televised election and it had a simple tele-friendly campaign theme -- Vajpayee vs Sonia. In all of 13 general e...
Sat, Oct 09, 1999
September 10, 1999 00:00 IST
KOZHIKODE, Sept 9: There are no elections in Kerala, only stress. As you drive into the State from Tamil Nadu, the first word that greets...
Fri, Sep 10, 1999
September 10, 1999 00:00 IST
KOZHIKODE, Sept 9: There are no elections in Kerala, only stress. As you drive into the State from Tamil Nadu, the first word that greets...
Fri, Sep 10, 1999
September 07, 1999 00:00 IST
CHENNAI, SEPT 6: At the best of times you can't read Moopanar's face. And these aren't his best. The face is the perfect mask. The wavy h...
Tue, Sep 07, 1999
February 23, 1998 00:00 IST
The hectic, last day's campaign in Sivaganga would be a radio journalist's delight. It is more audio than visual. Barring the posters, banne...
Mon, Feb 23, 1998
February 20, 1998 00:00 IST
Waving from his open jeep to the crowd, impressive for a municipal town like Siddipet, N. Chandrababu Naidu expressed confidence that his re...
Fri, Feb 20, 1998





