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Amar Chitra Katha (ACK Comics) is an Indian comic book publisher, based in Mumbai, India. The company was founded in 1967 by Anant Pai. Most of its comics are based on religious legends and epics, historical figures and biographies, folktales and cultural stories.
The Puranas are religious texts composed in Sanskrit, orally narrated for centuries before being written down from the 2nd century CE onwards. They are part of the sacred literature of the Hindu faith that also comprise of the Vedas, Brahmanas, Aryayankas, Upanishads, and the great epics.
- Amar Chitra Katha now has an app! When Amar Chitra Katha started, the comics were put together by hand, from colouring to the text. 53 years later, Amar Chitra Katha has its own app, with 300+ titles and over half a million subscribers!
- Nobody fact-checks like Amar Chitra Katha! Did you know that Amar Chitra Katha’s fact-checking is so good that in our Chandra Shekhar Azad comic, the writers at the time actually tracked down the actual name of a shop he once stopped at?
- Amar Chitra Katha is on Alexa! The ACK Quiz skill is one of the most played properties on Amazon’s Alexa. Have you tried it yet? Psst, it works on your Amazon Fire Stick-enabled TV as well.
- Amar Chitra Katha’s first title has been reprinted more times than you can count! The first-ever title of Amar Chitra Katha, ‘Krishna’ has been reprinted over 200 times.
Amar Chitra Katha is an Indian comic book author publisher, based in Mumbai. The company was founded in 1967 by Anant Pai and is headquartered in Mumbai. Most of its comics are based on mythology, religious legends and epics, historical figures and biographies, folktales and cultural stories like Ramayana, Mahabharata.
- Reinventing and Innovating A Timeless Storytelling Tradition
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- Fearless Champion of Historical Truth
The ACK narrative technique also reflects the unbroken and timeless Indian tradition of grandparents telling stories to their grandchildren or an elder, to the children of a chawl or under the proverbial village banyan tree. There is another quality to this timeless storytelling tradition: the Ramayana, Mahabharata and other stories can be enjoyed ...
The fact that the ACK comics succeeded in perpetuating this storytelling tradition should truthfully be regarded as an unprecedented innovation. Then, the additional fact that ACK pulled this off in an era of wildly popular comics like Phantom, the Strong, Invincible, and White superhero who leads and protects the primitive, savage, and Black pygmi...
Compendiums like Ramayana, Mahabharata, Dashavatara, Tales from the Panchatantra, Tales from the Jatakas, Tales of Hanuman, Tales of Birbal, Tales from Hitopadesha, Great Plays of Kalidasa, Bengali Classics, Animal Tales of India, the Story of the Freedom Struggle…. continue to remain as big draws. Similarly, individual titles like Krishna, Shakunt...
Jan 25, 2024 · Lakshmi is one of the three manifestations of the Mother-Goddess, along with Durga and Saraswati. Unlike the other two however, her domain is over tangible and material wealth and success. Most cultures have a goddess that represents the aspects of fertility, beauty, abundance and wealth.
Sep 30, 2022 · Amar Chitra Katha (or ‘immortal picture story’) is the first major homegrown comic book series in India. Anant Pai reportedly created the comics when he saw some Indian students on a television show being proficient in Greek and Roman mythology but lacking knowledge about their own region’s history.
