--- title: New Google Doodle Honors Indian Cartoonist Mario Miranda description: The Doodle, drawn by artist Aaron Renier, who like Miranda is also known for portraying crowded cityscapes, features a rainy Mumbai tableau canonical: https://time.com/4313868/google-doodle-mario-miranda-90th-birthday/ author: Rishi Iyengar article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-05-02T08:58:02.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:32:01.639Z og:title: New Google Doodle Honors Indian Cartoonist Mario Miranda og:description: It would have been the artist's 90th birthday. og:url: https://time.com/4313868/google-doodle-mario-miranda-90th-birthday/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt848df2e9d6486bb7/6988915abc6cfc2a2f3dccc0/screen-shot-2016-05-02-at-4-22-16-pm.png?branch=production&width=1080&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Screen Shot 2016-05-02 at 4.22.16 PM og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: New Google Doodle Honors Indian Cartoonist Mario Miranda twitter:description: It would have been the artist's 90th birthday. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt848df2e9d6486bb7/6988915abc6cfc2a2f3dccc0/screen-shot-2016-05-02-at-4-22-16-pm.png?branch=production&width=1080&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # New Google Doodle Celebrates Late Indian Cartoonist Mario Miranda's 90th Birthday by [Rishi Iyengar](https://time.com/author/rishi-iyengar/) ## Rishi Iyengar May 2, 2016 8:58 AM UTC  Google Doodle for Indian cartoonist Mario Miranda's 90th birthday Google Doodle for Indian cartoonist Mario Miranda's 90th birthdayGoogle by [Rishi Iyengar](https://time.com/author/rishi-iyengar/) ## Rishi Iyengar May 2, 2016 8:58 AM UTC One of the most famous cartoonists India has ever produced, Mario Miranda had his finger on the pulse of the country — particularly its largest metropolis Mumbai, on which most of his work was based — like few others did. On what would have been his 90th birthday on Monday, Google chose to honor him with a [Google Doodle](http://www.google.com/doodles/mario-mirandas-90th-birthday). Miranda, who rose to prominence through his cartoons in the _Times of India_ newspaper and the _Illustrated Weekly of India_, died in December 2011 in his hometown of Loutolim in Goa. He was posthumously conferred the Padma Vibhushan, India’s second highest civilian award. The Doodle, drawn by artist Aaron Renier, who like Miranda is also known for portraying crowded cityscapes, features (naturally) a rainy Mumbai tableau in place of the Google logo. “I approached Mario’s work by pretending I was drawing with him,” Renier said in a statement, adding that “trying to pick out who knows who, who’s watching who, who’s annoyed by who, who’s enamored by who,” is his favorite aspect of the late cartoonist’s signature style. “Hopefully people will see something of \[Miranda’s\] spirit in it,” he said. 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