19 Facts About Anant Pai

Anant Pai, popularly known as Uncle Pai, was an Indian educationalist and a pioneer in Indian comics.

Anant Pai is most famous as the creator of two comic book series viz.

Anant Pai was then brought up by his maternal grandfather until his death in 1944 after which he moved to Bombay, where he studied in Orient School, Mahim.

Anant Pai pursued his higher education in chemistry, physics and chemical engineering at the Institute of Chemical Technology and was a dual degree holder from the University of Bombay.

Anant Pai took on the role of writer, editor and publisher.

In 1969, Anant Pai founded Rang Rekha Features, India's first comic and cartoon syndicate.

In 1989, again through this syndicate, Anant Pai launched Chimpu Comics, which included his own works like Ramu and Shamu, Kapish, Little Raji and Fact Fantasy.

Anant Pai remained managing director of Rang Rekha Features until 2000, when he sold it to a Hyderabad-based animation studio named Color Chips.

Anant Pai founded the Partha Institute of Personality Development in August 1978, which conducted personality development classes through correspondence for children and teenagers.

Under Rang Rekha Features, Anant Pai created a large number of comic strips such as Ramu and Shamu, Kapish, Little Raji, and Rekha along with one-off short stories in comic format.

Anant Pai created educational strips such as Fact Fantasy, Funland and Funtime.

Anant Pai has written and produced two video films, Ekam Sat and The Secret of Success, in both English and Hindi.

The doodle featured Anant Pai sitting in his office, surrounded by shelves full of his own creations.

Two such pictures, one in which Uncle Anant Pai is sitting and the other in which he is standing, form the doodle, with the writing of Google connecting the two.

On 18 February 2012, ACK Media, a Mumbai-based edutainment company which had been managing Amar Chitra Katha and Tinkle since 2007, released an Amar Chitra Katha title on Anant Pai, which was scripted by Gayathri Chandrasekaran, assistant editor of Tinkle, and illustrated by Dilip Kadam, who had illustrated many of Amar Chitra Katha's most famous titles.

In 1961, at the age of 31, Anant Pai married Lalita, who was 20 at the time.

Anant Pai later died in 2015 four years after his own demise in 2011.

Anant Pai died of a heart attack on the evening of 24 February 2011.

Anant Pai had been recovering from hip surgery which was necessitated following his falling down from the stairs a week prior to his death.