Arbit Choudhury
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| Arbit Choudhury | |
|---|---|
 A comic strip portraying Arbit Choudhury | |
| Author(s) | Shubham Choudhury and Hemantkumar Jain |
| Launch date | 2004 |
| Genre(s) | Business school, Coming of age |
Arbit Choudhury is a coming of age webcomic run in the format of a comic strip from India.
Plot
[edit]The plot of each strip revolves around the protagonist named "Arbit Choudhury" who is an MBA student. Choudhury is a common Indian surname while the word "Arbit" refers to the arbitrary ways of the protagonist. The strip deals with the campus life of a B-school student, replete with jargon and has Arbit Choudhury making mockery of management concepts and theories. He is characterised as a student with big dreams and bigger mouth, studying at a leading business school. Each strip is carried in a single panel and is not serialised (that is, each strip is complete in itself).
Development
[edit]The webcomic and its protagonist were created by Shubham Choudhury and Hemantkumar Jain in 2004, then students at NITIE, Mumbai. It was initially created to serve as a mascot to the online contest MastishK' 04, which is part of Prerana, the inter-collegiate youth festival of the institute. In the subsequent years, competitions were held among the students of various B-schools, to identify good ideas for the comic strip, in addition to the ideas generated by the creators themselves. The concept of a comic strip revolving around the life of a B-school student proved successful at the festival and this led to its transformation into a webcomic. [1]
Awards
[edit]Arbit Choudhury was awarded with the Manthan Award for demonstrating how ICT could be used as an effective marketing tool.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ "Government seems to be strict, blocked two news websites within 24 hours of the incident". LiveMint. 2012-02-15. Retrieved 2022-02-12.
- ^ "List of The Manthan Award 2007 Winners". Digital Empowerment Foundation. Archived from the original on 2012-11-17. Retrieved 2012-12-18.
External links
[edit]- Bombay Times dated 18 October 2005 - when A meets B A supplement from Times of India
- Making of Arbit Choudhury
- Listing at Onlinecomics.net
- Interview of Creators
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