Ghasiram: Hindi comic book
Ghasiram is a Hindi comic book which I created in my school days. that was the period,when comics were really popular among kids and I always wished to be a cartoonist or say a comics creator. I used to read a lot of Hindi Comics which used to get published from Delhi and Mumbai. Names like Diamond comics , Manoj comics and Raj comics were craze in small towns. then there were Amar Chitra Katha , Indrajaal comics and Tinkle magazine. there was a small comics store called 'Vijay Book Centre' in my town. He used to rent out comics and also had a reading bunker. often, in summers he used get a lot of stock of comics from Mayapuri Delhi. this stock had a lot of Hindi translation of American and European comics. that's when I got introduced to characters like Asterix, Lucky Luke, Tintin, Axa, Laurel and Hardy . When, I got little more mature, I started enjoying foreign syndicated comic strips in the English newspapers. It had a subtle humor sense and had a lot of vis...