[4] As a student, he earned pocket-money by contributing cartoons to Kannada publications like Taranga, Sudha and Tushara.

[5] He studied MBA in finance from Mangalore University after doing BCom from Bhandarkar’s College, Kundapura.

[citation needed] After completing MBA, Acharya moved to Mumbai and started in an advertising agency as an account executive, but quit to pursue cartooning.

[7] He started working with Midday as a staff cartoonist in 2003 and contributed to daily cartoon column for nine years.

[8] Mail Today rejected Acharya's cartoon[9] showing PM Modi under China’s grip and dropped the cartoonist.