Tailang was born in Bikaner, Rajasthan, on 26 February 1960.
[1] Tailang, who made his first cartoon in 1970, started his career with the Illustrated Weekly of India, Mumbai, in 1982.
In 1983, he joined the Navbharat Times in Delhi.
[2] In 2004 he was awarded Padma Shri in the field of Literature & Education.
[3] He launched a book of cartoons titled No, Prime Minister in 2009,[4] a set of cartoons on the former Prime Minister of India Manmohan Singh.