Eminent writer and creator of ‘Handa Bhonda’, ‘Bantul the Great’, ‘Nonte Phonte’, Narayan Debnath is one of the Padma awardees of this year. There is no doubt that Narayan Debnath’s creation 'Nonte ...

Debnath breathed his last at around 10am at a private hospital in Kolkata on Tuesday, nearly a month after his admission, the Indian media reported. He was cremated in Howrah district’s Shibpur, where ...

For 55 years, Narayan Debnath wrote and illustrated the serialised comic strip Handa Bhonda, which was started in 1962 for the monthly Bengali children’s magazine Shuktara. Handa and Bhonda are two ...

I discovered Narayan Debnath’s illustrations as a child and instantly fell in love with them. There was a beautiful simplicity to his illustrations, a lifelike quality and realism that can only be a ...

Bengali cartoonist Narayan Debnath died in Kolkata on Tuesday morning after prolonged illness, PTI reported. He was 96. An official of a private hospital where he had been admitted since December 24 ...

Narayan Debnath news: Cartoonist Narayan Debnath, the creator of popular Bengali comic characters ‘Nonte Phonte’, ‘Bantul The Great’, ‘Handa Bhonda’, passed away in Kolkata on January 18, 2022, at the ...

The first and only Indian comic artist to have received a D.Litt degree, Debnath holds the record for the longest-running comic -- Handa Bhonda (1962)-- by an individual artist. The comic has been ...

Hritam Mukherjee had the pleasure of meeting Narayan Debnath at the latter’s residence in 2018 Courtesy: Hritam Mukherjee My tryst with Debnath and his art started that day, at that very hour which I ...

Researcher Swati Moitra also concurs: Even before I could read, I would hold the Nonte Phonte comic books upside down and read out loud whatever I remembered from it, complete with sounds effects like ...

Legendary cartoonist, noted illustrator and litterateur Narayan Debnath passed away in Kolkata on Tuesday, January 18, 2022. He was 96 and was undergoing treatment at a private hospital in the city ...

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