Kushal has had no formal training in cartooning and very little (as you might deduce) in writing other than actual experience on the campus newspaper at the University in 1989. The creative outlet was exactly what he was looking for, and he began submitting cartoons to magazines and newspaper. Kushal’s first encounter with newspaper and magazine cartooning was in college where he used to draw cartoons for his friends, leading local and national newspaper on the canteen coffee table. He says he’s been drawing cartoon characters since the age of six, when he started copying pictures in comic books. “After about ten years,” he said, “I’d copied so many different Artists, illustrators and cartoonists and borrowed such a variety of styles that no one could tell who I was copying any more. I had arrived.” Kushal is presently associated with The Asian Age, The Deccan Chronicle, The Womens Era, The Delhipress etc as a freelancer Cartoonist and Illustrator.