Renowned political cartoonist Amal Chakraborty dies at 90 in Kolkata

Renowned political cartoonist Amal Chakraborty dies at 90 in Kolkata * *Kolkata, Oct 18 (IANS): *Acclaimed political cartoonist Amal Chakraborty has died in Kolkata on Wednesday afternoon. He was 90. He was the pioneer in prompting the tradition of using political cartoons in the different vernacular newspapers in Kolkata. His cartoons under the title of *Amal Aloi *(in the light of Amal) became extremely popular and till the recent past he had been active in coming out with innovative cartoons on different contemporary developments especially in the local, national and international political perspective. His family members said that he completed 90 years just in September this year. Recently, he was also admitted at the state-run R.G. Kar Medical College & Hospital following a limb infection. He died there only on Wednesday afternoon. He had been associated with almost all the leading vernacular newspapers published from Kolkata since the beginning of his career as a political cartoonist. He was student of the nationally acclaimed cartoonist Shankar Pillai, who acted as Chakraborty’s main inspiration of taking up political cartoon as the principal medium of his career. His contemporaries feel that the political cartoons by Chakraborty were equally popular among the rural and urban population of the state. His death brings the end of an ear in use of illustrations in the media, they feel. *IANS src/

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