The Search Engine Google is showing a Doodle in India and in few other countries for celebrating Mario Miranda’s 90th birthday Mario Miranda was a beloved cartoonist, best known for his works published in the Times of India and The Illustrated Weekly of India.
Based primarily on the bustling cityscape of Mumbai, Miranda’s works often feature complex, multi-layered scenes. Humanity floods the canvas, and yet each character maintains their unique individuality. His works live on throughout India, as Murals on the walls of various buildings in Goa and other parts of India.
Mario Miranda was awarded Padma Vibhushan in 2012. Miranda was born on 2nd may 1926 in Daman, then in Portuguese India, to Goan Catholic parents.
His ancestral surname was originally Sardessai, before the family converted to Roman Catholicism in the 1750s. Miranda, who passed away in December 2011, authored several pictorial travelogues on some of the most famous cities in the world including Lisbon and London.
His illustrated book on the history of Goa co-authored with Manohar Mulgaonkar made him one of the biggest proponents of illustration.
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