(2002)Vishwa Saraswat Sammaan (2003)Google Doodle Google's international and India search pages honoured Pai with a comic-style doodle of him on 17 September 2011, the 82nd birth anniversary of Pai. The doodle featured Pai sitting in his office, surrounded by shelves full of his own creations. Two such pictures, one in which Uncle Pai is sitting and the other in which he is standing, form the doodle, with the writing of Google connecting the two. Amar Chitra Katha Biography On 18 February 2012, ACK Media, a Mumbai-based edutainment company which had been managing Amar Chitra Katha and Tinkle since 2007, released an Amar Chitra Katha title on Anant Pai, which was scripted by Gayathri Chandrasekaran, assistant editor of Tinkle, and illustrated by Dilip Kadam, who had illustrated many of Amar Chitra Katha's'' most famous titles. Personal life In 1961, at the age of 31, Pai married Lalita, who was 20 at the time. The couple was childless. He resided in an apartment in Prabhadevi, Mumbai. Death Anant Pai died of a heart attack on the evening of 24 February 2011. He had been recovering from hip surgery which was necessitated following his falling down from the stairs a week prior to his death. His last rites were performed later that night at the Shivaji Park crematorium, Mumbai. References External links Biography of Anant Pai by Atula Ahuja Interview by Atula Ahuja 20th-century Indian educational theorists 1929 births 2011 deaths Indian graphic novelists Indian comics writers Konkani people University of Mumbai alumni Institute of Chemical Technology alumni People from Udupi district Novelists from Andhra Pradesh 20th-century Indian novelists