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Narayan Debnath in his study. 2011. Image via Wikipedia by Bonyoraj. CC BY 3.0. Indian comics artist, writer and illustrator Narayan Debnath was perhaps not known in the international arena but he is hailed as the father of Bengali language comic strips. His popular comic strips such as Handa Bhonda (1962), Bantul the Great (1965) and Nonte Phonte (1969) popularized Bengali comics and entertained Bengali speaking children and teens in India and Bangladesh for generations. On January 18, 2022, Debnath passed away at the age of 96in a hospital in Kolkata after prolonged illness. His fans on soci…