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Cartoonist Narayan Debnath, creator of 'Bantul The Great', dies at 97

KOLKATA: 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 hospital where he was undergoing treatment.

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He was 97.

Debnath, a

Padma Shri awardee

, died at 10.15 am, an official of the hospital said.

He was admitted to the private hospital on December 24 and was on ventilator support.
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