Remembering #AnantPai, the father of #Indiancomics creator of @ACKComics @TinkleDigest.

Thankyou #UnclePai for a childhood filled with wonder & imagination.

#BornOnThisDay

#ACK a publishing milestone, more than 86 million copies were sold in 20 languages.

#ThursdayTrivia

The idea of #AmarChitraKatha came to his mind when he saw in a #quizcontest kids were answering the questions on #greekmythology easily but were unable to answer the questions on #Indianmythology.

& #39;Walt Disney of India’ lost his parents at tender age of 2. #AnantPai

I remember @TinkleDigest carried quizzes, non-fiction articles on history, science, geography, and a column in which children were invited to ask #UnclePai questions. The name stuck, and after that, he was called Uncle Pai, it was a role that delighted Pai, who was childless.

In 1994,the office of #ACK caught fire in which all original copies of the comic series were destroyed.The team published an appeal asking children to send spare copies in the next issue of Tinkle.They were able to recover a copy of every single #ACK that was ever published.