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| Toons maker Shekhar fetches special award in national event | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Apr 11: Son of the soil, noted Early Times Cartoonist Chander Shekhar who has already created a niche for himself in the arena of cartoons and caricatures has once again proved his mettle by winning another prestigious award in Maya Kamath Memorial Awards Competition 2017 organised by Indian Institute of Cartoonists and instituted by family of 'Mrs Maya Kamath' as MKM Awards for Excellence in Political Cartooning-2017.
The announcement for the aforesaid award was made recently and the same shall be conferred to Shekhar in the month of June, 2018. Shekhar's eloquent depiction on Triple Talaq issue has been aptly recognized by the jury under the category special jury appreciation award. The jury team had a tough time in selecting the awardees in view of uniformly excellent entries. "Due to the exceedingly high quality of all the entries, we had to go through most of the works several times over, to arrive at the contest winners. In a way, we also feel very sorry that due to the number of constraints of winners, many outstanding pieces of work had to be excluded from the final winners' list", the jury members maintained while announcing the awards. It is pertinent to mention here that Chander Shekhar has already a number of awards and recognitions to his credit. The most prestigious one being the one received by him from the then President of India, Pranab Mukherjee during an international cartoon exhibition organized to pay tributes to luminary from the field of cartoons RK Laxman. Shekhar has also to his credit exemplary participation in innumerable prestigious exhibitions including the 100th year of Charlie Chaplin where his works received great appreciation especially for his unique style of depicting most serious situations with a terrific blend of wit and satire. |
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