Puthukodi Kottuthody Shankaran Kutty, known simply to the newspaper reading world as Kutty, one of India’s leading political cartoonists, has passed away in the United States at the age of 90.
Part of the legendary troika of cartoonists that comprised Shankar and Abu Abraham, Kutty’s work appeared first in the now-defunct National Herald and later in the Bengali daily Ananda Bazaar Patrika.
E.P. Unny, the chief political cartoonist of The Indian Express, pays tribute in today’s paper.
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By E.P. UNNY
When two practitioners, generations apart, sit down to chat, a one-way flow of wisdom should naturally ensue. Among other things, this cartoonist defied this one too.
On that August morning in 1985 when I met him first, Kutty was at the INS building earlier than the place had woken up. "I come in by nine to drop my cartoon at the Ananda Bazar office and leave before the wise guys turn up," were his opening remarks.
He had little use for peer inputs, "however wise or otherwise". Before anyone else in the Capital, he had made up his mind on the day's newsmakers [...]
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