with the women behind them Vibha Tailang and Rekha Gurera respectively at The
Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi, at the occasion of National Press day 2015 on 16 Nov 2015 Tailang was born in
Bikaner,
Rajasthan, on 26 February 1960. Tailang, who made his first cartoon in 1970, started his career with the
Illustrated Weekly of India,
Mumbai, in 1982. In 1983, he joined the
Navbharat Times in Delhi. For several years he was with the
Hindustan Times, while also doing short stints with the
Indian Express and
The Times of India. His last assignment was with the
Asian Age. In 2004 he was awarded
Padma Shri in the field of Literature & Education. He launched a book of cartoons titled
No, Prime Minister in 2009, a set of cartoons on the former Prime Minister of India
Manmohan Singh. He died on 6 February 2016 of brain cancer. ==References==