Importance of Verbal Text in The Interpretation of Political Cartoons The combination of verbal and visual text plays an important role in conveying message and leaving strong impact on the minds of the people. Teachers, Media, advertising agencies etc are using this strategy to influence people and to endorse their ideas or products. It is also observed that sometimes verbal language dominates and visuals are used just to support the idea or at other instances visuals dominate and language is used just to enhance the meaning or to make it obvious. Language (verbal text) and visuals are thus influenced by each other. Language or visuals when used alone have their effect but the combination of both in communication can make it more influential or impactful. The combination of strong verbal and eye- catching visuals can thus lead to everlasting impact on the minds of the people. This research work focuses on the combination of these forms of communication in newspaper political cartoons. The political cartoons is a form of art and the name suggests that it is form of communication in which visuals are of great importance thus captions are optional or are added just to support the idea. This research aims at highlighting the importance of verbal text in the interpretation of political cartoons. Moreover, it also takes into account the combined effect of verbal and visuals in political cartoons. The collected data and its analysis has proved that the captions or verbal text is an important part of newspaper political cartoons in order to convey particular meaning and in the absence of verbal text the readers can interpret the visual text of the cartoons in varied ways. The political cartoons are drawn with reference to particular issues or events thus the addition of verbal text becomes essential to convey the desired meaning.