On September 17, 2008, a new website by ACK-media was launched. In 2007, the imprint and all its titles were acquired by a new venture called ACK Media. It was created by Anant Pai, and published by India Book House. Founded in 1967, the imprint has more than 400 titles that retell stories from the great Indian epics, mythology, history, folklore, and fables in a comic book format. He died on February 24 2011.He is survived by his wife, Lalita Pai.Īmar Chitra Katha ( Hindi: अमर चित्र कथा, amar citra kathā ?, "Immortal Captivating (or Picture) Stories") ( Amar Chitra Katha PL)is one of India‘s largest selling comic bookseries, with more than 90 million copies sold in 20 Indian languages.
Lifetime Achievement Award – at the First Indian Comic Convention, New Delhi (– just 6 days before his death) was given to him by Pran, Creator of Chacha Chaudhury.
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Pai’s other works include a number of books on personality development for children and teenagers, ("How To Develop Self-confidence", "How to Achieve Success", "How To Develop A Super Memory", UBS Publishers) and a series of audio book versions of Amar Chitra Kathastories, "Storytime with Uncle Pai" ( Universal Music India, Dec 2001), where he plays the role of narrator-storyteller. He has written and produced two video films, Ekam Sat (the Vedic Concept of God) and The Secret of Success, in English and Hindi. Ramu and Shamu, Kapish, Little Raji, Rekha, Fact Fantasy, Funland and Funtime are some of the comic strips created by Pai, most of which continue to appear in newspapers and magazines.
His involvement with the above, and the rapport he shared with his readers earned him the title "Uncle Pai". In 1969, Anant Pai founded Rang Rekha Features, India’s first comic and cartoon syndicate, and started the children’s magazine Tinkle in 1980. The series went on to become a publishing milestone for the Indian comic book scene, selling over 86 million copies of about 440 titles. Later, he took on the role of writer, editor and publisher. Mirchandani of India Book House, when most other publishers from Allied Publishers to Jaico had rejected the concept. He left his job and started Amar Chitra Katha the same year, with the help of late G. The idea behind starting a comicbook series devoted to Indian culture and history came to Pai from a quiz contest aired on Doordarshan in February 1967, in which participants could easily answer questions pertaining to Greek mythology, but were unable to reply to the question "In the Ramayana, who was Rama’s mother?". He studied chemistry, physics and chemical technology at the University of Bombay Department of Chemical Technology (UDCT now UICT) and was a dual degree holder from the University of Bombay.Įndowed with a passion for publishing and comics, his failed attempt at creating a children’s magazine (Manav, 1954) was followed by a career as a junior executive in the Times of India books division, putting him in the thick of affairs when Indrajal comics was launched by the Times Group. At the age of twelve, he came to Mumbai, where he studied in Orient School, Mahim.
Early life and educationīorn in Karkala, Karnataka to Venkataraya and Susheela Pai, he lost his parents at the age of two. Today, Amar Chitra Katha, sells about three million comic books a year, in English and more than 20 Indian languages, and has sold about 100 million copies since it inception in 1967 by Anant Pai, and in 2007 was taken over by ACK Media.
In 1980, he launched Tinkle, a children’s anthology, which was started under Rang Rekha Features, India’s first comic and cartoon syndicate, that lasted till 1998, with him as the Managing DirectorĪnant Pai suffered a massive heart attack and passed away on 24th Februay 2011 at 5 pm. The creator of ‘Indian comics’ and founder of Amar Chitra Katha on which generations of Indians grew up.Īnant Pai, (17 September 1929 – 24 February 2011) popularly known as Uncle Pai, was a renowned educationalist and creator of Indian comics, in particular the Amar Chitra Kathaseries in 1967, along with the India Book House publishers, and which retold traditional Indian folk tales, mythological stories, and biographies of historical characters.
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