[4] So, with no formal training,[5] he joined The Statesman under editor Evan Charlton in 1961 and continued until 1967 doing front-page pocket cartoons without captions titled Out of My Mind.

[4] In 1967, Dar joined the largest-selling newspaper in North India, The Hindustan Times, where he was the political staff cartoonist for over two decades.

[3][7][8][9] After retirement, he worked as an illustrator on assignments for the World Bank, Microsoft and various government departments including the Ministries of Tourism, External Affairs, and Jammu and Kashmir.

[3] His originals are reportedly in possession of the Queen of the United Kingdom, Richard Attenborough, Yehudi Menuhin and many other leading politicians and celebrities.

[7][11] According to the Indo-Asian News Service, although Sudhir Dar worked as a political cartoonist, he largely refrained from satirising specific politicians and events, instead taking digs at more general subjects such as corruption and bureaucracy.