E. P. Unny
political cartoonist
Ekanath Padmanabhan Unny is an Indian political cartoonist.
He was born in Palakkad, Kerala. He studied physics at a university in Kerala.
His first cartoon was published in Shankar's Weekly in 1973. Upon sending some cartoons to The Hindu, the editor Gopalan Kasturi offered him to join full-time. Unny left his job as a bank official to start his career as a professional cartoonist with The Hindu in 1977, where he spent 12 years learning about journalism from Kasturi. After leaving The Hindu in 1989, he moved to Delhi and worked with the Sunday Mail where he experimented with different forms of cartooning – pocket and editorial, as well as started working as a graphic editor.
Subsequently, he moved to The Economic Times. He is currently the Chief Political Cartoonist with The Indian Express, in which his editorial strip, Business as Usual, appears daily.
He has drawn and written graphic novels in Malayalam and a travel book on Kerala, Spices & Souls: A Doodler's Journey Through Kerala.
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