Arun Prasad

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Arun Prasad
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Arun Prasad at Comic Con Exhibition at Mumbai in 2012
Born
Kerala, India
NationalityIndian

Arun Prasad is an historian specialised in the history of karnataka, a comics archivist and a pannapictagraphist (comics collector). [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] He is also a researcher, freelance writer [8] and columnist on the heritage of Bangalore [9] [10] [11] [12] and presently the Project & Research Head of Discover Bengaluru, an organisation documenting the Bangalore city's heritage and history. [3] [6] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24]

His comics collection includes more than 17,000 [7] rare and old Indian/Western comics including rarest of Amar Chitra Katha, Indrajal Comics, Tinkle, Mandrake the Magician and The Phantom. [1] [6] [12] [20] [25] [26] He also possesses the complete collection of Indrajal Comics (published by Bennett, Coleman). [20] [21]

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