Shekhar Gurera

He started his cartoon career in 1984 as a freelancer.

• Name — Shekhar Gurera • Born — 30 August 1965 • Birthplace — Moga, Punjab, India • Occupation — Cartoonist, caricaturist, illustrator, designer • Spouse — Rekha Gurera • Children — 2 • Years Active — 1984–present • Website — http: www.shekhargurera.com/

Gurera was born on 30 August 1965 in Moga, Punjab, India. He started his pre-university (11th) from DAV College, Abohar, but graduated with a degree in Science from Multani Mal Modi College at Patiala in 1986. After shifting to Gurgaon, Haryana he got the degree in Applied Arts from College of Art at New Delhi in 1990.

During 1973 Gurera's first cartoon was published in Veer Pratap, a Hindi newspaper from Punjab, as he was awarded in an on-the-spot competition. During his school days he continued his skill of cartooning and sketching as hobby only. During 1984 he professionally started contributing to Punjab Kesari as freelancer while pursuing Science graduation at Patiala.

• Illustration — Shekhar Gurera's regular creations in collage form (2013) • Illustration — Self-caricature, by Shekhar Gurera

In 1999, Gurera drew a series of Kargil Kartoons, on-the-spot cartoons of Indian soldiers passing through the New Delhi railway station on their way to Kargil. The cartoons on the Kargil War were later exhibited at The Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi on 25–31 July 1999, followed by the chain exhibition of cartoons at Jaipur, Chandigarh, Patna and Indore.

Since 2001, he publishes the weekly feature Future Lens. This column features a celebrity from sports, films, politics or other fields and depicts them as they'd look with 30 years added to their present age. These pictures are created by painting digitally, which makes them look like actual photographs.

A chain of cartoons for the Calendar 2005 and 2016 of National Productivity Council about the different ways of productivity.

• Date — Exhibition — Organised by • 16 July 1997 — 3rd Asian Cartoon Exhibition at Tokyo, Japan — Japan Foundation • 23 December 1998 – 5 January 1999 — 3rd Asian Cartoon Exhibition at New Delhi, India — Japan Foundation • 16–29 Jul 1999 — Kargil Cartoons at New Delhi, India (Later on also at Chandigarh, Jaipur, Patna and Indore) — Lalit Kala Academy • 7–28 Jan 2017 — Solo exhibition at Indian Cartoon Gallery, Bangalore. — IIC

In 2018, Conservation in Indian Living Demonstrated through Illustration in the booklet of 8th Regional 3R (Reduce, Recycle, Reuse) Forum. The event was organised with the cooperation of State Government of Madhya Pradesh and Government of India under the auspices of United Nations Regional Development Center (UNCRD) at Indore (9–12 April 2018).