Bengaluru: Four cartoonists of the state have bagged prizes at the national level World Cartoonist Day 2025 competition organized by the Cartoon Watch in association with the Department of Culture, Chattisgarh and Chattisgarh Tourism Board. "Tourist will not be afraid of Terrorist" was the subject of the contest.
Prize winners: Uday Vitla and Bibek Sengupta, have shared the first cash prize of Rs 10,000/-. Kantesh M Badiger, G S Naganath and Nanjunda Swamy have shared Rs 1,000/- each in the special cash prize category. Uday Vitla resides in Idkidu of Bantwal Taluk in Dakshina Kannada district while the remaining cash prize winners are residents of Bengaluru.
Uday Vitla: An Art Teacher by profession, his cartoons have been published since from1994 and has been participating in the district, state and national level cartoon competitions.
Bibek Sengupta: He is a Senior Project Manager in an e-learning company and theTimes Group Books, a sister concern of The Times of India has published his three books: Football Fun Book(2014), Amazing Olympics: Down the Centuries(2016) and The World Chasing the cup(2018).
Kantesh M Badiger: He is a Graphic Artist and Cartoonist contributed to several newspapers, weeklies and monthlies ever since 1994 and has published more than 10,000 cartoons so far. Presently he is contributing pocket cartoons to the 'Kunchatantra' column of 'Samayukta Karnataka' Kannada daily.
G S Naganath: A Creative Design Consultant is a passionate professional. He is the person behind the 'Karnatakada Cartoonistaru', a handbook of the cartoonists belonging to the state enlisting brief bio-data, works and self-drawn caricatures of 111 cartoonists spread across the state.
Nanjunda Swamy Y S: An unassuming cartoonist who has grown tremendously without any formal education in the related field. Maybe, he has been bestowed with abundant talent, thanks to his artist father Y K Srikantiah.
-Manohar Yadavatti
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