Bio
Panju Ganguli (pronounced Panju Gangolli), a resident of Mumbai, is a veteran cartoonist in Kannada and English, and is a writer in Kannada.
He studied for his BSc at Bhandarkar’s College of Science and Arts, Kundapura. He then worked as a staff cartoonist in a Kannada daily named ‘Mungaru’ in Mangalore and the weekly ‘Lankesh Patrike’ in Bengaluru. Later, in 1992, he shifted to Mumbai and joined ‘The Sunday Observer’ under the editorship of Pritish Nandy. For the last 30 years he has been working as a Staff Cartoonist at ‘Business India’ magazine.
Along with Cartooning, writing is his main hobby. He writes a column for a well-known Mysore daily, ‘Andolana’. ‘Moodhanambikegala Vishvaroopa’ is his first published book in Kannada. It is a collection of superstitions from all over the world.
In 2021, he published a dictionary titled ‘Kundapura Kannada Nighantu’. Kundapura Kannada is a local dialect spoken only in Kundapura taluk and its surrounding areas in Udupi district of coastal Karnataka. Kundapura Kannada Nighantu is a massive book of 700 pages and contains more than ten thousand words and 1700 idioms of Kundapura Kannada.
Presently he is compiling a book called ‘Kundapura Kannada Hadugalu’. It is a collection of thousands of folk songs in Kundapura Kannada which are on the verge of extinction.
He is also setting up a Kharvi Konkani dictionary. Kharvi Konkani is a unique language spoken by a small fishing community called ‘Kharvi’ in the coastal belt of Udupi district.