Eminent writer and creator of ‘Handa Bhonda’, ‘Bantul the Great’, ‘Nonte Phonte’, Narayan Debnath is one of the Padma awardees of this year. There is no doubt that Narayan Debnath’s creation 'Nonte ...

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 ...

Eminent writer and illustrator Narayan Debnath passed away on Tuesday morning. He was 96. The eminent writer was hospitalised on December 24 due to a prolonged respiratory illness. Eventually, other ...

Paran Bandopadhyay, Amlan Majumder, Subhasis Mukherjee, Sumit Samaddar, Lama Halder, Kanchana Moitra, Biswajit Chakraborty and Parthasarathy Deb star in the new film (Clockwise from top left) Sandip ...

Researcher Swati Moitra also concurs: Even before I could read, I would hold the Nonte Phonte comic books upside down and read out loud whatever I remembered from it, complete with sounds effects like ...

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 ...

Much before Rajinikanth started splitting flying bullets with a knife, Bantul The Great had achieved greater feats: bullets used to bounce back after hitting him. No, he never wore a bullet proof ...

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 ...

Handa-Bhonda, Bantul the Great or Nonte Phonte — which Bengali does not know them? These redoubtable comic-strip characters have been popular among readers for half a century. They appeared in the ...

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 ...