At the tender age of 13, Rajinder Puri saw the horrors of the Partition from up close, when he came to Delhi from Karachi. As part of a generation that was left scarred for life and a political observer, Puri held the Congress responsible for the woes of the country after Partition, which he felt could have been avoided. He began his career as a cartoonist and writer in the early 1960s, and became known for his acerbic style. Invariably, the then Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru was the subject of many of his cartoons, and Puri wasn't particularly kind to him.