Mohan Sivanand

Who is Mohan Sivanand?

Mohan Sivanand is an Indian journalist and artist. He is Editor of the India edition of Reader's Digest.

Mohan started his art career while at college in Kerala, publishing his first cartoon in Shankar's Weekly, India's equivalent of Punch, in 1975. After college, he worked for The Times of India group in Bombay, where his cartoons and articles appeared regularly in several of the group's publications.

In 1983, Mohan moved to Reader's Digest where he has been a writer, editor and art director. A self-taught artist who started painting in 1991, he first exhibited his oils at Bombay's Jehangir Art Gallery in May 1994. Since then he has held four one-man shows in Bombay. Today, several of Mohan Sivanand's canvases are in private collections in India and abroad.

Mohan has won the K.M. Cheriyan Memorial Gold Medal, in 1975, after topping his class at the Institute of Journalism, Trivandrum, Kerala, where he did his graduate studies in journalism. He also won the Rajika Kripalani Young Journalist of the Year Award in 1979.