[2] Baral was a college teacher and painter when he began drawing cartoons in the 1960s when he was asked to by the publisher of Naya Sandesh.

"[3] Initially he drew comics secretly; he adopted the name Batsyayana, the name of a Hindu sage, because teachers were not allowed to publicly comment on politics.

He drew many politicians, including prime ministers Prachanda, Baburam Bhattarai, Madhav Kumar Nepal, Sher Bahadur Deuba, and especially Girija Koirala, depicted with a prominent nose.

[1][4] One of his most notorious cartoons was published in 2005 and featured Koirala, then an opposition leader, carrying a dead horse labeled "constitutional monarchy" away from a garbage bin.

[3][6] The next day, Kantipur published a statement that concluded "This newspaper affirms its commitment to the constitutional monarchy and democracy.