Sharad Sharma is an Indian cartoonist

Cartoonist

A cartoonist is a person who specializes in drawing cartoons. This work is usually humorous, mainly created for entertainment, political commentary or advertising...

 based in New Delhi

New Delhi

New Delhi is the capital city of India. It serves as the centre of the Government of India and the Government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi. New Delhi is situated within the metropolis of Delhi. It is one of the nine districts of Delhi Union Territory. The total area of the city is...

, India. He was associated with many newspapers and magazines before he switched to electronic media

Electronic media

Electronic media are media that use electronics or electromechanical energy for the end-user to access the content. This is in contrast to static media , which today are most often created electronically, but don't require electronics to be accessed by the end-user in the printed form...

 and introduced political animation

Animation

Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D or 3-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement. The effect is an optical illusion of motion due to the phenomenon of persistence of vision, and can be created and demonstrated in several ways...

 to Indian TV news channels. In late nineties he formed an organisation World Comics India to introduce the idea of grassroots comics

Grassroots comics

Grassroots Comics are different from the mainstream comics, these comics are made by common people themselves. Most of the time they are linked to some organization activity or the [social campaign]...

. The idea was to take this new communication medium to the masses. He took the art of cartooning and comics to the rural hinterland of India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

 and other South Asian countries. He has extensive experience from workshops with a variety of organisations in India and internationally. His cartoon strip Develomentoon has been published in several newspapers and website internationally. He has published several books and manuals.

Since 2006 he has been helping small organisations working in remote areas to initiate social campaigns using grassroots comics on issues like infanticide, foeticide, corporal punishment

Corporal punishment

Corporal punishment is a form of physical punishment that involves the deliberate infliction of pain as retribution for an offence, or for the purpose of disciplining or reforming a wrongdoer, or to deter attitudes or behaviour deemed unacceptable...

, paedophilia.

Awards

He received the Karmaveer Puraskaar

Karmaveer Puraskaar

The Karmaveer Puraskaar are National People's Awards for Citizen Social Justice and Action instituted by the citizens and people of India. These awards are instituted by iCONGO- Confederation of NGOs – a Public-Private-People partnership in association with other partners from industry, media,...

 Noble Laureates, 2009 in the "Social Communication and Campaign Strategist" sub-category.

He received the Real Heroes Award CNN IBN, 2008.IBN AWARD

He was awarded Ashoka-Innovators for Public, Fellowship, 2005 Ashoka

External links

• Founder, World Comics
• Khemka Foundation
• Promote Use of Comics for Social Good with Web Design, Research, Communication Skills - Fellow Sharad Sharma, Ashoka: Innovators for the Public
  Ashoka: Innovators for the Public
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• Comic Relief: This artist is animated by change, CNN-IBN Real Hereos