Media in India use the term PIO - Person of Indian Origin - when referring to Indian immigrants in other countries. Whether they are in the news for amassing wealth by founding technology companies, committing crimes, or, in this case, are politicians in the United States: Kamala Harris, Nikki Haley and Vivek Ramaswamy.

John Gracias, based in Bangalore, is inspired in his cartoons by the works of Gary Larson, Michael Lunig, Kliban, Ed Mclachlan, and also underground comic artists like Crumb, Gilbert Shelton and Art Spiegelman. He retired as a ship captain for a Kuwaiti company which transports live sheep and cattle from Australia to the Middle East.

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