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]
Publications
- Green Humour for a Greying Planet, Penguin Random House, 2021
- Naturalist Ruddy: Adventurer. Sleuth. Mongoose, Penguin Random House, 2021
- Bird Business: Illustrated Peeks Into the Daily Lives of Indian Birds, Bombay Natural History Society, 2019
- Making Friends with Snakes (But from a Distance), Pratham Books with Madras Crocodile Bank Trust
- The Great Indian Nature Trail with Uncle Bikky, WWF India, 2018 with Bijal Vachharagani