{"id":158952,"date":"2023-09-13T12:36:05","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T07:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=158952"},"modified":"2023-09-13T12:36:06","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T07:06:06","slug":"political-cartoonist-ajit-ninan-passes-away-at-68","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/political-cartoonist-ajit-ninan-passes-away-at-68\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Cartoonist Ajit Ninan passes away at 68"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Political Cartoonist Ajit Ninan passes away at 68: <\/strong>Ajit Ninan, a well-known political cartoonist, died at the age of 68. Ninan was best known for his Centrestage series in India Today and Ninan&#8217;s World in The Times of India. Nina was a well-known political cartoonist who also worked in children&#8217;s literature. One of his beloved creations is Detective Moochwala and his dog Pooch, which appeared in 1980s in Target, a youth magazine. His defiance in the form of political cartoons, satire on the ruling government as well as the opposition, cartoons on environment and caricatures, are fondly remembered by everyone of his time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/daily-current-affairs-and-quiz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Daily Current Affairs Quiz: September 2023<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ajit Ninan work<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Ajit Ninan\u2019s Funny World, published in Target magazine<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Just Like That! published daily in the Times Of India.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Like That Only! (along with Jug Suraiya), published bi-weekly in the Times Of India.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Centrestage, published in India Today<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ninan\u2019s World, published in the Times of India<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Poli Tricks, a series of cartoons during the 2009 Indian general elections, published in the Times of India<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>iToons: a single panel cartoon strip in The Times of India \u2013 with Sunil Agarwal<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political Cartoonist Ajit Ninan passes away at 68: Ajit Ninan, a well-known political cartoonist, died at the age of 68. Ninan was best known for his Centrestage series in India Today and Ninan&#8217;s World in The Times of India. Nina was a well-known political cartoonist who also worked in children&#8217;s literature. One of his beloved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":894,"featured_media":158959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[5153],"tags":[4919],"class_list":["post-158952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-september-2023","tag-persons-in-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158960,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158952\/revisions\/158960"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}