Karnika Kahen
India’s first cartoon everywoman is the product of a female cartoonist who stood up to her own critics
Kanika Mishra had had it with the folksy ‘common man’ character so prevalent in Indian cartoons. She decided to create a ‘common woman’ and named her character Karnika Kahen which literally means ‘Karnika speaks.’ And speak she does, taking stands against sexual abuse and rape in India, and getting a lot of flak in the process.