Sudhir Dar

He lived in Gurgaon, a suburb of Delhi. He died on 26 November 2019 in Noida following cardiac arrest.

For a few years, Dar worked at The Independent in Bombay. Later, he also worked for The Pioneer from 1991 to 1998, and Delhi Times (a supplement of The Times of India). Dar retired in 2000, but continued working as a freelancer. His cartoons had also appeared in other publications like The New York Times, Saturday Review, Washington Post and Mad.

In 1967, Dar joined the largest-selling newspaper in North India, The Hindustan Times, where he was the political staff cartoonist for over two decades. Dar's pocket cartoon This is It appeared regularly on the front page. According to Maurice Horn in The World Encyclopedia of Cartoons, Dar's time at the Hindustan Times was marked by acts of resistance against attempts to curtail his freedom, until he resigned in anger in 1989.

Dar started his career with All India Radio, working as an announcer in the 1950s. A sketch he drew of the news editor of The Statesman during a talk radio show led to an offer to work at the paper. So, with no formal training, he joined The Statesman under editor Evan Charlton in 1961 and continued until 1967 doing front-page pocket cartoons without captions titled Out of My Mind.

Sudhir Dar (14 May 1932 – 26 November 2019) was an Indian cartoonist and illustrator. Starting with The Statesman in 1961, he went on to work as the political cartoonist with Hindustan Times from 1967 for over two decades. Subsequently, he joined The Pioneer and in 2000 started working as a freelancer.

Sudhir Dar, who was of Kashmiri descent, was born in 1932 in Allahabad to Krishna Prasad Dar. He earned a master's degree in geography from the University of Allahabad.