In 1953, he met Fred Joss of the London
Star, who encouraged him to move to London. At 32, Abu arrived in London in the summer of 1953 and immediately sold cartoons to
Punch magazine and the
Daily Sketch and started to contribute material to ''Everybodys' London Opinion
and Eastern World'' using the pen name 'Abraham'. In 1956, after two cartoons were published in
Tribune, he was sent a personal letter by
David Astor, the editor of
The Observer, the world's oldest Sunday newspaper, offering him a permanent job as its first ever political cartoonist. Astor asked Abu to change his pen name as 'Abraham' would imply a false slant on his cartoons, and so he settled on 'Abu', a schoolboy nickname of his. He was described in
The Guardian as "the conscience of the Left and the pea under the princess's mattress". He also produced reportage drawings from around the world. In 1962 in
Cuba he drew
Che Guevara and spent three hours in a nightclub with
Fidel Castro. ==Return to India==