Team News Riveting
Raipur, March 20
After successfully organizing cartoon festivals in Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Raipur, Chennai, Hyderabad and Bengaluru, the only monthly cartoon magazine of the country, Cartoon Watch is going to organize the event in Visakhapatnam on March 25.
In its 27th year of publication, the magazine is going to felicitate three eminent cartoonists of Andhra Pradesh namely M Sankara Rao (Bali) Visakhapatnam, T Venkat Rao (Teevee) Vijayawada and Hari Venkat Ramana from Visakhapatnam with life time achievement awards. The event will start at 6 pm.
Editor of Cartoon Watch magazine Triambak Sharma, in a statement, informed that Smt. G. Hari Venkata Kumari, H. W. Mayor of Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation, will be the Chief Guest of the function. Special Guests of the function will be Anil Kumar Sahu, Managing Director Chhattisgarh Tourism Board, Raipur and Commissioner, Directorate of Tourism, Government of Chhattisgarh and Prof DVR Murthy, Board of Studies Chairman, Department of Journalism and Mass communication, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam.
The programme will be held under aegis of Chhattisgarh Tourism Board, Chhattisgarh and Chhattisgarh Government with support of PRSI Visakhapatnam Chapter. The special cartoon festival issue of the Cartoon Watch magazine would also be unveiled.
Notable, the Cartoon Watch magazine recently organized its silver jubilee function at Darbar hall of Chhattisgarh Raj Bhawan. Cartoonists of Chhattisgarh were felicitated in the function. Earlier, cartoonists of eminence, R K Laxman, Sudhir Tailang, Abid Surti have been conferred the lifetime achievement award of the magazine.
Former President of India APJ Abdul Kalam had also participated in the cartoon festival of the magazine and cartoonist Bala Saheb Thakre had received his one and only award for cartooning from the magazine. Earlier, the magazine had held a cartoon exhibition in London (UK).
The editor of magazine, Triambak Sharma was also a special invitee of Global Cartoon Forum in its function at Paris (France).
The Cartoon Watch Magazine in a bid to preserve the old cartoons of eminent artists had established a cartoon museum in which works of artists like Shankar Pillai, Mario Miranda, R K Laxman, and Sudhir Tailang could be seen.
In its 26 years journey, Cartoon Watch had also adopted a positive approach and had organized many national level competitions for social causes like drug abuse, environment and energy conservation. The budding artists had showcased their talent in these competitions along with the eminent cartoonists.
