Kerala Varma, popularly known as Kevy, was an Indian political cartoonist. Shankar's Weekly was where Kevy first published cartoons to launch his career. Later, he joined the Eastern Economist staff as a cartoonist. Kevy was imprisoned during the emergency, ostensibly for making caricatures that were derogatory of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. In 2008 and 2009, Kevy created his final cartoons for The New Indian Express. Kevy preferred to view a cartoon as a message whose quality only depended on how efficiently the message was transmitted, as he thought there was a difference between cartoons and art. Over the course of his career, his style underwent significant alteration.