Mir Qadri

Background

Suhail was born in a family of artists.

Career

The only twist in the tale was that he did not try to play the ‘Saran’ or take to singing. Instead, he took up a brush in his hands to paint. This was reason enough for him to attract as much pressure as possible.

Opting for a career that was different from the family’s, was a good enough reason for everyone to question him as far his choice of career was concerned.Today Suhail is the household name of Kashmir & his cartoons always go viral on social networking sites like Twitter & Facebook.

Education & Mir Suhai studied Commerce at the Senior Secondary level.He graduated from the only Fine Arts college in Kashmir Valley. "Institute of Fine Arts".

Suhail was Always passionate about art, Suhail started making cartoons even before he joined college. His career took flight when he signed up with Kashmir Images, a local English daily from Kashmir on a very low salary, where veteran journalist Bashir Manzar groomed him.

His next career move took him to Rising Kashmir as a cartoonist.

Four years at Rising Kashmir and one and a half years at Kashmir Images, local daily from Kashmir further refined his skills as a cartoonist. He also worked for Kashmir Reader.He is presently working at "Kashmir Obsrver" as cartoonist. During April 2015 Nepal earthquake Suhail"s cartoon on biased media coverage of Indian media went viral on social networking sites after Nepal social media users slammed main stream Indian media for insensitive coverage and started a trend on Twitter & Facebook #GoHomeIndianMedia.

Achievements

• Airports Authority of India selected his sketches for their calendar and New Year greeting cards after he won a national competition in the year (2012). Suhail prefers to be modest about his achievements. An avid cartoon watcher, Suhail is quite a foodie who loves to spend time with his Play Station and read comics.