Mumbai-Based Kanika Mishra Wins Editorial Cartoonist Award
Kanika Mishra lambasted a local holy man who was accused of raping a young girl, despite that fact that she and her family received death threats. She has been given the Award for Courage in Editorial Cartooning for 2014 by Cartoonists Rights Network International.
By Richard Springer, India West
Kanika Mishra, a Mumbai-based editorial cartoonist, has won the “Award for Courage in Editorial Cartooning for 2014,” an annual honor bestowed by Cartoonists Rights Network International, a U.S.-based nonprofit seeking to protect the creative freedom of social and editorial cartoonists.
CRNI said the award goes to “a cartoonist in great danger” demonstrating “exceptional courage in the exercise of free speech rights under extraordinary circumstances.”…
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