Rohan Chakravarty
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Rohan Chakravarty is an Indian artist, cartoonist, illustrator and naturalist.[1][2] His "Green Humour" series was picked up by GoComics in 2013 making Rohan the first Indian cartoonist to be picked by a global comics distributor.[3] Green Humour has also been published as a book, as a series in two national newspapers,[4] and in places like Tinkle and by government departments in India such as the Department of Environment and Forest of Arunachal Pradesh.[5] He has won a number of awards for his work.[6][7][8] Rohan grew up in Nagpur where he studied to be a dentist.[9] It was here that he was introduced to the world of wildlife through a nature based outreach program conducted by Sanctuary Asia.[10] His professional cartoon work started when he was 16.[5] A trip to Nagzira Wildlife Sanctuary and his first tiger sighting inspired him.[11][12]
