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Cartoon Competition Winners Announced!

SOUTHASIAN CARTOON COMPETITION WINNER ANNOUNCED

Himal received 376 entries from 173 cartoonists from all over the world for the Southasian Cartoon Competition on the theme Dramatic Divide: The distance between the powerful and the powerless. After careful deliberation, the three-member jury of Sadanand Menon, Madhuker Upadhyay, Kunda Dixit has made its decision. Wishing to recognise the high quality of the works submitted, the editors of Himal have also announced an Editors' Pick list of cartoons for special recognition below. Related Event: Southasian Cartoon Congress (14-15 November 2008)

Congratulations to
WINNER:
Husejin Hanusic (Hule) (Bosnia and Herzegovina)



RUNNER UP:
Tie between Oktay Bingöl (Turkey) and Jamal Rahmati (Iran)






EDITORS' PICK:

Abhijeet Kini (Bombay, India)



Bayram Hajizadeh (Baku, Azerbeijan)



Chime Rigzin Namgyal (Thimphu, Bhutan)



Ferreol Murillo Fuentes "FERROM" (San José, Costa Rica)



Hari Nepali (Kathmandu, Nepal)



Kamruzzaman Ratan (Dhaka, Bangladesh)



Karen Haydock (Chandigarh, India)



Makhmudjon Eshonkulov (Makhmud) (Tashkent, Uzbekistan)



Malik Sajad (Srinagar, India)



Mir Rohullah Sadat (Kabul, Afghanistan)



Muhammad Zahoor (Peshawar, Pakistan)



N B Sudheer Nath (New Delhi, India)



Prabhakar Parshuram Wairkar (Bombay, India)



Rajesh K C (Kathmandu, Nepal)



Rodrigo Daniel Nunes de Matos (Lisboa, Portugal)



Sabir Nazar (Lahore, Pakistan)



Shantha K Herath (Pannipitiya, Sri Lanka)



Spiro Radulovic (Belgrade, Serbia) 



Syed Rashad Imam "Tanmoy" (Dhaka, Bangladesh)



Triambak Sharma (Rajpur, India)

Contact: please direct all queries to surabhip@himalmag.com
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