# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/k-shankar-pillai
# Generated: 2026-08-14T23:16:37.761Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/k-shankar-pillai"
name: "K. Shankar Pillai"
slug: "k-shankar-pillai"
description: "Kesava Shankar Pillai, better known as Shankar, was an Indian cartoonist. He is considered the father of political cartooning in India. He founded Shankar's Weekly, India's Punch in 1948. Shankar's Weekly also produced cartoonists like Abu Abraham, Ranga and Kutty, he closed down the magazine during the Emergency of 25 June 1975. From then on he turned to making children laugh and enjoy life."
tagline: "Cartoonist (1902–1989)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Cartoonist_Shankar.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "IN"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1902-07-31"
deathDate: "1989-12-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  historical:           8.420556
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump