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Anant Pai

Born

in Karkala, Karnataka, India

September 17, 1929

Died

February 24, 2011

Genre

Comics & Graphic Novels, Children's Books

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Anant Pai popularly known as Uncle Pai, was an Indian educationalist and creator of Indian comics, in particular the Amar Chitra Katha series in 1967, along with the India Book House publishers, and which retold traditional Indian folk tales, mythological stories, and biographies of historical characters. 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 Director.

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. ...more

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Average rating: 4.42 · 61,275 ratings · 1,778 reviews · 1,063 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Gita: Bhagavad Gita 4.38 avg rating — 2,678 ratings — published 1999 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Krishna by Anant Pai, Ram Waeerkar (Illustrator) 4.46 avg rating — 1,334 ratings — published 1969 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tinkle Double Digest 6 4.47 avg rating — 1,239 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tinkle Digest 1 4.44 avg rating — 1,217 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tinkle Digest 17 4.40 avg rating — 1,091 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tinkle Double Digest 3 4.49 avg rating — 987 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tinkle Double Digest 5 4.49 avg rating — 986 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hanuman (Amar Chitra Katha) (1) by Anant Pai, Ram Waeerkar (Illustrator) 4.44 avg rating — 820 ratings — published 2008 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Amar Chitra Katha Mahabharata Vol. 1-3 by Anant Pai (Editor), Adurthi Subba Rao, Gayatri Madan Dutt 4.48 avg rating — 806 ratings — published 1972 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shiva Parvati 4.45 avg rating — 729 ratings — published 2009 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Amar Chitra Katha Stories of Shiva (5 books)
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4.45 avg rating — 2,923 ratings

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Anant Pai (Editor)

4.46 avg rating — 1,243 ratings

Brave Women of India (6 books)
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4.55 avg rating — 622 ratings

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Shanta Patil,

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4.46 avg rating — 407 ratings

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“If one hates another it will recoil on oneself”
― Anant Pai, Stories of Shiva: 5 in 1

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“There is no room for love in the hearts of ambitious men! How can you talk of love, when this very moment because of you hundreds of men are dying on the battlefield.”
― Anant Pai, Brave Rajputs: 5 in 1

tags: love, valour

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