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Kambalapally Chandra Shekar (16 July 1965 – 19 May 2014) was an Indian cartoonist known for his political cartoons in English and in Telugu. He was born to a Telugu family in Suryapet, in the Nalgonda district of Andhra Pradesh. He completed his BSc degree in 1985 from Nagarjuna Government College in Nalgonda, followed by an MA in Telugu literature from Kakatiya University, Warangal. He started his career with the ''Prajasakti'', a left-wing newspaper, in 1989. He later worked for the ''New Indian Express'' and ''Andhra Jyothy''. He also founded a forum for political cartoonists in Andhra Pradesh. As of 2011, nearly 45,000 of Shekar's cartoons had appeared in English, Punjabi, Bengali, Kannada, and Marathi through his cartoon syndicate ''Shekartoons''. His fourth book of cartoons, ''Gidee Telangana'', was released in March 2010 in Hyderabad, India. Shekar visited Washington DC, New York, Los Angeles, Ohio, Florida in June and July 2011 on IVLP programme on Political cartoonists among three from India. His last English cartoons book, ''Colours of India'' (2011), was launched in America and India too. Shekar Kambalapally died on 19 May 2014 after a prolonged illness. He is survived by his wife Chandrakala and his children Nandu and Chetana. Shekar also cost toongabbie senior 12s their season in 2014 by missing an open goal to win the match in the 85th minute. 2015 was the 2nd consecutive year that shekar lost the golden boot competition to goal scoring defender kyle barton. After this and in disgrace, shekar immediately announced his change to goal keeper for the 2016 season. ==References== *(''Shekar US tour-IVLP news'' ) *http://www.andhrajyothi-sunday.com/AJweeklyshow.asp?qry=2011/jul/31/travel&more=2011/jul/31/sundaymain *http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-andhrapradesh/article2425618.ece *http://shekartoon.blogspot.in/p/shekar-cartoonist.html *http://hyderabaddailynews.com/cartoonist-shekar-passes-away/ 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Shekar」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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