Pranab: A cartoon lover

While West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee does not take cartooning or caricature kindly and the majority of the political class, too, shares a dislike for it, the new resident of Rashtrapati Bhavan has a different take. Pranab Mukherjee has always had a hearty laugh over a good caricature; he even hosted a group of cartoonists who had called on him on Saturday, inviting him for a function honouring the late cartoonist P K S Kutty, who used to caricature Mukherjee in Bengali newspapers Ananda Bazar Patrika and Aajkaal. Cartoonists who had lampooned Mukherjee in his heyday depicting him smoking a pipe, today even gifted the President his caricatures drawn by them. Mukherjee was pleased as punch!