Ajit Ninan (born 1955 in

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) is an Indian

political cartoonist An editorial cartoonist, also known as a political cartoonist, is an artist who draws editorial cartoons that contain some level of political or social commentary. Their cartoons are used to convey and question an aspect of daily news or curren ...

, best known for drawing the ''Centrestage'' series of cartoons in

India Today ''India Today'' is a weekly Indian English-language news magazine published by Living Media India Limited. It is the most widely circulated magazine in India, with a readership of close to 8 million. In 2014, ''India Today'' launched a new on ...

magazine and ''Ninan's World'' in the

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. Ninan lives in

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, where he works for the Times of India.

Work

Comic strips

* Detective Moochhwala, published in

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magazine.

Cartoons

* ''Ajit Ninan's Funny World'', published in Target magazine * ''Just Like That!'' published daily in the Times Of India. * ''Like That Only!'' (along with

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), published bi-weekly in the Times Of India. * ''Centrestage'', published in India Today * ''Ninan's World'', published in the Times of India * ''Poli Tricks'', a series of cartoons during the

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s, published in the Times of India * : a single panel cartoon strip in The Times of India - with Sunil Agarwal

Books

* * Ninan, Ajit, and Sudeep Chakravarti (eds.)
The India Today Book of Cartoons
New Delhi: Books Today, 2000.

References

Writers from Hyderabad, India Living people 1955 births Indian editorial cartoonists 20th-century Indian essayists 20th-century Indian novelists Indian male novelists Novelists from Andhra Pradesh 20th-century Indian male writers {{cartoonist-stub