Bengaluru’s Indian Cartoon Gallery and its role in documenting this art form

“Bengaluru is famous for many firsts — Asia’s first streetlights as well as the country’s first traffic light were installed here, our first Nobel Prize winner CV Raman made this city his home. And now, it houses India’s first cartoon gallery,” says VG Narendra, founder and managing trustee of the Indian Institute of Cartoonists (IIC).

Situated in Midford Garden, off MG Road, the story of the Indian Cartoon Gallery begins with IIC, which was established in 2001. Narendra realised he had built an amazing network of cartoonists in India and abroad during his stint as cartoonist for major Indian newspapers and as president of the Karnataka Cartoonists Association.