Kutty
Kutty
was born at Ottapalam, Kerala in 1921 to Kayarat Narayana Menon and
Kottuthodi Lakshmi Amma. Kutty was educated at Ottapalam and Malabar
Christian College, Kozhikode. Kutty's talent was discovered by the
famous Malayalam satirist, Professor M. R. Nair (better known by his pen
name "Sanjayan"). His first cartoon appeared in the Malayalam humor
magazine Viswaroopam (edited by Sanjayan) in 1940.Rao Sahib V. P. Menon,
a relative of Kutty's father and a senior official in the British
Imperial Secretariat (New Delhi) introduced him to the famous Indian
cartoonist Shankar. Shankar used to sketch cartoons for Hindustan Times
and was looking for a trainee. V. P. Menon requested Shankar to train
Kutty, who reached New Delhi on January 3, 1941. In those days,
Jawaharlal Nehru (later India's first Prime Minister), a great admirer
of Shankar's cartoons, was looking for a cartoonist for his
newly-started English Daily, National Herald, published from Lucknow.
Shankar trained Kutty for 6 months and recommended him for Nehru's
newspaper. Kutty became staff cartoonist of National Herald (Lucknow).
His first cartoon to appear in a daily newspaper was published in the
National Herald January 15, 1941.
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