Cartoonist's achievement

Rao’s achievement has been recorded under, “Most awards/ recognitions for cartoons”, and has been mentioned that as a freelance cartoonist since 1964 he has won about 12 international awards and 12 national awards for his work from places like Israel, Korea (nine times from 1996), Taiwan and Cyprus. Between 1980-2008, he has organised 33 one man shows.

Rao was also the President of Karnataka Cartoonist Association.