For more than six decades a man entertained a series of generations with his magical comic strips and still now is considered one of the best sellers in Kolkata Book Fair, is none other than Narayan ...

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 ...

On a particularly slow day, all I have to do is sit down with a Nonte-Phonte comic book, and my troubles will lay forgotten to one side. I imagine it's the same for most people who are fans of Narayan ...

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 ...

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 ...

As the legendary cartoonist Narayan Debnath passed away after a prolonged illness at the age of 97, on Tuesday, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee mourned his demise with a social media ...

At a time when the “onslaught” of Tom and Jerry, Mickey Mouse, Lee Falk’s Phantom and Flash Gordon comic strips was heavily felt and were an integral part of newspapers, especially in the ’60s, ...

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 ...

Cartoonist Narayan Debnath, the creator of Bengali comic characters 'Bantul The Great', 'Handa Bhonda' and 'Nonte Phonte', died in Kolkata on Tuesday morning after a prolonged illness, said the ...

A senior West Bengal minister has personally handed over the Padma Shri medal and citation to ailing cartoonist Narayan Debnath at a city hospital, a year after the honour was bestowed on him by the ...