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He along with his wife was watching a quiz contest aired on Doordarshan in February 1967, in which participants could easily answer questions pertaining to Greek mythology, but were unable to reply to the question "In the Ramayana, who was Rama's mother?"
The shocked husband
Decided to take the matter in his own hands.
The same year, he left Times Of India and started to write and publish stories of Ramayana, Mahabharata, Purana, Jataka, Folk tales & Itihasa.
That's how The Legend #AnantaPai or #UnclePai started #AmaraChitraKatha
Born on 17th September, 1929 at Karkala, Anant Pai lost both his parents when he was just 02. Was raised by his maternal grandfather and he too passed away when he was 15.
He moved to Mumbai & completed his education with an engineering in chemical technology.
In 1954, his first
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