Harvinder Mankkar
Harvinder Mankkar (born 27 April 1964) is an Indian cartoonist, illustrator, script-writer and film director. He is well known for his comic series characters Motu Patlu published in Lot Pot magazine. Its 3D animated television series adaptation is airing on Nickelodeon. He has illustrated almost 22,000 pocket cartoons, comic strips, educational books and story books. He is founder and CEO of The Art Studio company. Also, he is the Creative Director and Chief Illustrator for Lot Pot magazine. He is Editorial Director of the film magazine Mayapuri. Early life and background Harvinder Mankkar was born in Delhi to a Punjabi Hindu Rajput family. He was interested in creating illustrations and drawings when he was only 16 years old. He used to draw faces and illustrations from Coal pieces on the floors and walls and gradually with time that coal was replaced with the brush and ink pen. He sent his first pocket cartoon to Madhu Muskan ''Madhu Muskan'' (meaning ''Sweet Smiles' ...
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Delhi
Delhi, officially the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi, is a city and a union territory of India containing New Delhi, the capital of India. Straddling the Yamuna river, primarily its western or right bank, Delhi shares borders with the state of Uttar Pradesh in the east and with the state of Haryana in the remaining directions. The NCT covers an area of . According to the 2011 census, Delhi's city proper population was over 11 million, while the NCT's population was about 16.8 million. Delhi's urban agglomeration, which includes the satellite cities of Ghaziabad, Faridabad, Gurgaon and Noida in an area known as the National Capital Region (NCR), has an estimated population of over 28 million, making it the largest metropolitan area in India and the second-largest in the world (after Tokyo). The topography of the medieval fort Purana Qila on the banks of the river Yamuna matches the literary description of the citadel Indraprastha in the Sanskrit ...
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Rajput
Rajput (from Sanskrit ''raja-putra'' 'son of a king') is a large multi-component cluster of castes, kin bodies, and local groups, sharing social status and ideology of genealogical descent originating from the Indian subcontinent. The term Rajput covers various patrilineal clans historically associated with warriorhood: several clans claim Rajput status, although not all claims are universally accepted. According to modern scholars, almost all Rajput clans originated from peasant or pastoral communities. Over time, the Rajputs emerged as a social class comprising people from a variety of ethnic and geographical backgrounds. During the 16th and 17th centuries, the membership of this class became largely hereditary, although new claims to Rajput status continued to be made in the later centuries. Several Rajput-ruled kingdoms played a significant role in many regions of central and northern India from seventh century onwards. The Rajput population and the former Rajput stat ...
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Indian Male Screenwriters
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Hindi-language Film Directors
Hindi (Devanāgarī: or , ), or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari: ), is an Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in the Hindi Belt region encompassing parts of North India, northern, Central India, central, East India, eastern, and Western India, western India. Hindi has been described as a standard language, standardised and Sanskrit#Influence on other languages, Sanskritised Register (sociolinguistics), register of the Hindustani language, which itself is based primarily on the Old Hindi, Khariboli dialect of Delhi and neighbouring areas of North India. Hindi, written in the Devanagari script, is one of the two official languages of the Government of India, along with Indian English, English. It is an languages with official status in India, official language in nine states and three union territory, union territories and an additional official language in three other states. Hindi is also one of the 22 languages with official status in ...
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Indian Cartoonists
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1964 Births
Events January * January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved. * January 5 - In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople meet in Jerusalem. * January 6 – A British firm, the Leyland Motor Corp., announces the sale of 450 buses to the Cuban government, challenging the United States blockade of Cuba. * January 9 – ''Martyrs' Day'': Armed clashes between United States troops and Panamanian civilians in the Panama Canal Zone precipitate a major international crisis, resulting in the deaths of 21 Panamanians and 4 U.S. soldiers. * January 11 – United States Surgeon General Luther Terry reports that smoking may be hazardous to one's health (the first such statement from the U.S. government). * January 12 ** Zanzibar Revolution: The predominantly Arab government of Zanzibar is overthrown by African nationalist rebels; a ...
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Harvinder - Rajiv Gandhi Award
Harvinder is a given name. Notable people with the name include: * Harvinder "Harry" Anand, American politician *Harvinder Kalyan, Indian politician *Harvinder Mankkar, Indian writer, illustrator, and film director * Harvinder Sahota, Indian-American cardiologist *Harvinder Singh, Indian cricketer *Harvinder Sodhi Harvinder Singh Sodhi (born 17 October 1971) is a former Indian first-class cricketer who played for Madhya Pradesh cricket team between the 1990/91 and 2003/04 seasons. Sodhi played as an all-rounder who batted right-hand and bowled right-ar ...

Harvinder Mankkar With Abdul Kalam
Harvinder is a given name. Notable people with the name include: * Harvinder "Harry" Anand, American politician *Harvinder Kalyan, Indian politician *Harvinder Mankkar, Indian writer, illustrator, and film director * Harvinder Sahota, Indian-American cardiologist *Harvinder Singh, Indian cricketer *Harvinder Sodhi Harvinder Singh Sodhi (born 17 October 1971) is a former Indian first-class cricketer who played for Madhya Pradesh cricket team between the 1990/91 and 2003/04 seasons. Sodhi played as an all-rounder who batted right-hand and bowled right-ar ...

Madhu Muskan
''Madhu Muskan'' (meaning ''Sweet Smiles'' in English) was an Indian weekly comic magazine from the Gowarsons Group of Companies, which had a circulation of up to 100,000 in the late 1970s. History and profile ''Madhu Muskan'' was started by the publisher Gowarsons in 1972. The magazine was headquartered in New Delhi. It was first published fortnightly and then weekly. Though not a comic in the strict literary sense, ''Madhu Muskan'' was more than a magazine, almost nearer to any comics published. 90% of the pages contain illustrated comical stories featuring various characters popular at the times. Just 4-5 pages contains the stories in the form of a magazine, and rest as mentioned above were in the form of the comics. ''Madhu Muskan'' was mostly a funny magazine, designed with a view of family readers' entertainment. It was a very popular magazine. At the times when comics industry was at boom, and people had interests in reading this form of literature, the magazine too fea ...
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Punjabi Hindu
Punjabi Hindus are adherents of Hinduism who identify linguistically, culturally, and genealogically as Punjabis. While Punjabi Hindus are mostly found in the Indian state of Punjab today, many have ancestry from the greater Punjab region, an area that was partitioned between India and Pakistan in 1947. History Ancient The Punjabi people first practiced proto-Hinduism, the oldest recorded religion in the Punjab region. The historical Vedic religion constituted the religious ideas and practices in the Punjab during the Vedic period (1500–500 BCE), centered primarily in the worship of Indra. The bulk of the Rigveda was composed in the Punjab region between circa 1500 and 1200 BCE, while later Vedic scriptures were composed more eastwards, between the Yamuna and Ganges rivers. An ancient Indian law book called the Manusmriti, developed by Brahmin Hindu priests, shaped Punjabi religious life from 200 BCE onward. British colonial era Prominent Indian nationalists fr ...
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