Mohan Sivanand
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n journalist and artist
Artist
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. He is Editor of the India edition of Reader's Digest
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Mohan started his art career while at college in Kerala
Kerala
or Keralam is an Indian state located on the Malabar coast of south-west India. It was created on 1 November 1956 by the States Reorganisation Act by combining various Malayalam speaking regions....
, publishing his first cartoon in Shankar's Weekly, India's equivalent of Punch, in 1975. After college, he worked for The Times of India group in Bombay
Mumbai
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, where his cartoons and articles appeared regularly in several of the group's publications.
In 1983, Mohan moved to Reader's Digest
Reader's Digest
Reader's Digest is a general interest family magazine, published ten times annually. Formerly based in Chappaqua, New York, its headquarters is now in New York City. It was founded in 1922, by DeWitt Wallace and Lila Bell Wallace...
where he has been a writer, editor and art director. A self-taught artist who started painting in 1991, he first exhibited his oils at Bombay's Jehangir Art Gallery
Jehangir Art Gallery
The Jehangir Art Gallery is Mumbai ’s most famous art gallery and a tourist attraction. It was founded by Sir Cowasji Jehangir at the urging of K. K. Hebbar and Homi Bhabha. It was built in 1952...
in May 1994. Since then he has held four one-man shows in Bombay. Today, several of Mohan Sivanand's canvases are in private collections in India and abroad.
Mohan has won the K.M. Cheriyan Memorial Gold Medal, in 1975, after topping his class at the Institute of Journalism, Trivandrum, Kerala, where he did his graduate studies in journalism. He also won the Rajika Kripalani Young Journalist of the Year Award in 1979.