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Abid Surti or Aabid Surti (born 5 Would possibly maybe presumably well 1935) is a painter, creator, cartoonist, journalist, environmentalist, playwright and screenwriter from India.^[1][2][3][4] He used to be given a National Award^{[[clarification wished]} by the authorities of India in 1993 for writing a series of rapid stories called the “Teesri Aankh”.^[5]

Existence[[edit]

Abid Surti used to be born in a Gujarati Muslim household on 5 Would possibly maybe presumably well 1935 at Vavera, come Rajula, Gujarat, India to Gulam Hussain and Sakina Begum.^[6] In his childhood, at the age of 5, he nearly got carried away by flood in the Tapti river come Surat.^[6] The household later shifted to Bombay and he spent his childhood in Dongri attach of Mumbai. His father used to be follower of Sufism.^[7] He joined the J. J. College of Art in 1954 and obtained a Diploma in Arts. He used to be significantly influenced by the writings of twentieth-century Bengali novelist, Sharat Chandra Chatterji.^[6] Besides being a author in Hindi and Gujarati, he’s also an expert in Urdu.^[6] He started his profession as a freelancer. In 1965, he married Masooma Begum; they’ve two sons from this marriage.^[6][8]

Writings[[edit]

Surti has written rapid stories, novels, performs, kid’s books and travelogues. Several of his books have been translated into regional languages. He has also been writing for Hindi and Gujarati newspapers and magazines for over 40 years and obtained a National Award for his rapid-story assortment Teesri Aankh in 1993.^[1] He grew to change into an creator by chance. When his first treasure broke down as a consequence of household stress, the teenaged Aabid had no one to insist heart’s contents to – so he started placing his story on paper. The story used to be printed in Gujarati in 1965 as Tootela Farishta (Fallen Angels) and proved to be an sudden success.^[9][6]

He has written extra than 80 books, including 45 novels, 10 rapid story collections and 7 performs.^[9][10][11]

The autobiographical contemporary Musalman used to be an account of his childhood in the poverty-ridden Dongri attach of Mumbai.^[9] His most traditional contemporary, Sufi, describes the parallel lives of two guests: the creator himself and a man called Iqbal Rupani, who rose to change into the kingpin of the Mumbai underworld in the 1960s and 1970s.^[12] In 1975, his fictional version per the Devil’s Bible, entitled The Black Book, created a nationwide controversy. Even amidst excessive acclaim, it used to be translated into seven languages and voted Book of the twelve months in Kannada.^[9][6] He earned the nickname the “Salman Rushdie of India” after his Black Book used to be printed.^[1] He has together alongside with his son Aalif Surti and Chandrika Vyas, Rima Kashyap also penned a controversial and laborious-hitting contemporary called In Title of Rama inspired by a accurate incident at some level of the demolition of the Babri Masjid.^[13]

In 2007, he used to be awarded the Hindi Sahitya Sanstha Award by the Uttar Pradesh authorities, and used to be given an award by the Gujarat authorities for his kid’s literary work Rangat. Among his other novels are Canal and Daagh. He has also worked as a tv and film script-author. He used to be the editor of the Gujarati annual magazine Dayaro for loads of years.^[6]

Just now not too lengthy ago, he has sued the makers of the Bollywood film Atithi Tum Kab Jaoge, which he says frail his Gujarati contemporary Bauter Varas No Babo, printed in 1976 and later translated into Hindi as Bahatar Saal Ka Baccha.^[14][15]

He has written graphic kid’s novels in Hindi, including Buddh kyun muskuraye 2500 saal baad (Why did the Buddha smile after 2500 years).^[16] He has also written satirical gazal with overall English phrases.^[17]

Works[[edit]

Gujarati

Hindi Collections

Novels

Tales

Gallop

• Awara Abid

Satire

• 365 Chutkule (decision of jokes)
• Bundabandi

Plays

• Munchon Wali Begam

English

Novels

Plays

• He is Radha

Paintings[[edit]

Surti has been acclaimed as a painter, credited with using ingenious and long-established options to color with oil and watercolours. His exercise of acrylic colours applied to Italian artwork paper is also stated to be out of this world.^[18] An achieved painter, he has held 16 exhibitions in India and in one other country. In his early years, he invented an modern technique called “mirror collage” which won excessive acclaim in Japan. In 1971, the Indian authorities commissioned a temporary film to showcase his ingenious work.^[19][20][21]

Cartoons and comic-books[[edit]

The indispensable caricature characters he created have been in 1952–Fifty three for a Gujarati magazine Ramakadu. It consisted of a comic e-book characteristic of four pages in color with three effectively-known characters – a boy, a woman and a monkey, entitled Rang Lakhudi.^[16] As a cartoonist, he later created the stunning simpleton Dhabbuji. The long-established and standard caricature strip has been one of the principal longest-working comic strips in India, working without a destroy for over 30 years. It used to be the weekly caricature that first regarded in Hindi magazine Dharmyug.^[16][19][22] He also created one other comic e-book character, Bahadur,^[1][16][19] which achieved a gigantic fan following, when the comics started to be printed in Indrajal Comics from 1978.^[7] He also created other comic e-book characters treasure Inspector Azad,^[23] Inspector Vikram and a woman character named Shuja.^[24][25][26] The caricature Dhabbuji and comics of Bahadur, Inspector Azad, Inspector Vikram and Shuja have been all also printed in English. Raj Kapoor as soon as wished to originate a film per Inspector Azad, exhibiting that the recognition of his comic strips have been excessive.^[27] Extra, his principal comic strips Doctor Chinchoo Ke Chamatkar, which used to be printed in the Hindi magazine Parag from 1963 to 1965 is being serialised by the National Book Believe as Doctor Chinchoo Ke Kaarnamein.^[28]

As an environmentalist[[edit]

Abid Surti primarily based Tumble Dumb, a water conservation initiative in Mumbai in 2007. Every Sunday, alongside with a plumber and an assistant, he visits homes in and spherical Mira Street and fixes dripping taps. He simply replaces gentle O-ring rubber gaskets with new ones. The premise struck him in 2007 when he seen the dripping tap in his buddy’s dwelling. “A tap that drips water as soon as every second wastes about 1,000 litres of water every month so imagine how powerful we all destroy,” he components out. Surti and his assistants lift consciousness thru posters and pamphlets. He’s going to pay for all costs from his pocket.^[2][29][30]

Documentary[[edit]

Pramod Pati has directed a documentary on the lifetime of Abid Surti.^[6]

Awards & Recognition[[edit]

Abid Surti is featured as Indian comics story ingenious in the Story Calendar 2019 released by Comix Thought as featured legendary artist for the month of January.^{[31][32][33][34]} He has been awarded National Award 1993, Hindi Sahitya Sanstha Award, Gujarat Gaurav.