Cartoonist Shekhar gets MKM Award

Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 11: Noted cartoonist and son of the soil,  Chander Shekhar has been awarded in prestigious  Maya Kamath Memorial Awards Competition 2017,  organized 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 this 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.