Arbit Choudhury
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| Arbit Choudhury | |
|---|---|
 A comic strip portraying Arbit Choudhury | |
| Website | http://arbitmba.com/ |
| Current status/schedule | Every 15 days |
| 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[]
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[]
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]
The strip is updated once every 15 days. Apart from the regular ideas, patrons can also submit ideas for Arbit Choudhury through its website and such contributions are acknowledged as contributors in the strip itself.
Arbit Awards[]
On September 1, 2016; ArbitMBA announced the initiative Arbit Award and ceased Arbit MBA comics character. Arbit Awards are presented by “Arbit Choudhury- comics” to honor newspaper and media companies that did an “outstanding job in creating and serving with online news, updates and services.[2][non-primary source needed]
Awards and Recognitions[]
Arbit Choudhury was awarded with the Manthan Award for demonstrating how ICT could be used as an effective marketing tool.[3]
References[]
- ^ "Government seems to be strict, blocked two news websites within 24 hours of the incident". LiveMint. 2012-02-15. Retrieved 2022-02-12.
- ^ "Important Update: ArbitMBA & Arbit Awards". ArbitMBA. 2016-09-01. 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[]
- Official website for the strip
- 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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