Anil Nakhasi is an Artiste, Cartoonist, Creative Director and Independent Producer. He writes scripts (fiction and nonfiction) for many production houses and TV channels and draws political cartoons for various newspapers and magazines. He is also a visiting faculty at BITS Pilani and Apeejay Institute of Mass Communication. He is based at Delhi.

Born in 1973, Anil Nakhasi was forced to leave the valley in 1990 due to militancy. With early schooling at D.A.V School, Srinagar, he did his BSc Electronics from Kashmir University and PG Diploma in Journalism from New Delhi YMCA. Anil has sixteen years of experience in print media as a Cartoonist and ten years of experience in electronic media as a TV Producer. He has done the prestigious OB live recordings from PM’s residence, Parliament, Vigyan Bhavan, Siri Fort Auditorium, FICCI etc. and has given live demo of his art in DD’s evening live show programmes. His work was appreciated by Khushwant singh in his HT column 'With Malice Towards One and All'. Anil has made 51 caricatures of ex-PM Atal Behari Vajpayee ‘Meri 51 Atal Rekhayen' and presented it to him at his then official residence.

Anil Nakhasi recently did a Cartoon Show 'Cartoon Curry' at Amer Fort, Jaipur.

Anil Nakhasi can be contacted at:
nakhasianil@gmail.com

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