Today when I logged in to the Google I was transfixed by the illustrative piece of picture cum drawing on the front of it. Of course, as all of you are reading this blog must have instantly realized that it is the 82nd birthday of the Great Anant Pai whom we all know since our childhood days. To put it frankly I knew very little of Indian mythological tales having been brought up at Kolkatta in West Bengal where I studied till college and worked for a few years after my graduation. In fact I learned and was eventually drawn into the great epics of Ramayana and Mahabharata and other mythological tales through the memorable works of Anant Pai through his now world famous comic Amar Chitra Katha. The Tinkle too was my constant companion then. Eventually, leaving Kolkatta and hunting for jobs at Chennai and Bangalore or rather Bangalaru, I would still try to get hold of a few copies of Amar Chitra Katha from my colleagues or friends or buy them from any local shop.
These creations of Anant Pai needless to say influenced my perception of my country about its vividness and history all throughout my life. Later on I went on to read and enjoy the great cartoons of R. K. Laxaman, Sudhir Dar, Shankar and Kutty and so on and felt the Indian touch of the realities around us in a way not quite easy enough for the Western mindset to understand. Raja Rao, R.K. Narayanan, Khuswant Singh were trend setters of the Indian fiction and were followed by the present writers who have discovered the art of writing in English with generous sprinkling of the Indian way of life in each of their fiction.
LET US HOPE THAT MORE PEOPLE FOLLOW THE FOOTSTEPS OF ANANT PAI TO MAKE OUR WORLD OF READING AND ENTERTAINMENT AN EXHILARATING EXPERIENCE.
These creations of Anant Pai needless to say influenced my perception of my country about its vividness and history all throughout my life. Later on I went on to read and enjoy the great cartoons of R. K. Laxaman, Sudhir Dar, Shankar and Kutty and so on and felt the Indian touch of the realities around us in a way not quite easy enough for the Western mindset to understand. Raja Rao, R.K. Narayanan, Khuswant Singh were trend setters of the Indian fiction and were followed by the present writers who have discovered the art of writing in English with generous sprinkling of the Indian way of life in each of their fiction.
LET US HOPE THAT MORE PEOPLE FOLLOW THE FOOTSTEPS OF ANANT PAI TO MAKE OUR WORLD OF READING AND ENTERTAINMENT AN EXHILARATING EXPERIENCE.
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