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{{Infobox webcomic| <!-- Part of [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Webcomics]] --><br />
| title = Arbit Choudhury<br />
| image = [[Image:Arbit Choudhury.JPG|350px|center]]<br />
| caption = A comic strip portraying ''Arbit Choudhury''<br />
| author = Shubham Choudhury and Hemantkumar Jain<br />
| url = <br />
| status = <br />
| began = 2004<br />
| ended =<br />
| genre = [[Business school]], [[Coming of age]]<br />
| ratings =<br />
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'''''Arbit Choudhury''''' is a [[coming of age]] [[webcomic]] run in the format of a [[comic strip]] from [[India]].<br />
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== Plot ==<br />
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).<br />
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== Development ==<br />
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 [[culfest|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. <ref name="Livemint.com">{{Cite web|date=2012-02-15|title=Government seems to be strict, blocked two news websites within 24 hours of the incident|url= https://www.livemint.com/Leisure/MZdDmRq45qXkoAqGdOrSEI/Life-in-caricature.html|access-date=2022-02-12|website=LiveMint|language=en-US}}</ref><br />
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== Awards ==<br />
''Arbit Choudhury'' was awarded with the [[Manthan Award]] for demonstrating how ICT could be used as an effective marketing tool.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://manthanaward.org/section_synopsis.asp?id=108 |title=List of The Manthan Award 2007 Winners |publisher=Digital Empowerment Foundation |accessdate=2012-12-18 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121117084404/http://manthanaward.org/section_synopsis.asp?id=108 |archivedate=2012-11-17 }}</ref><br />
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== References ==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-1267366,curpg-1.cms Bombay Times dated 18 October 2005 - when A meets B] A supplement from [[Times of India]]<br />
* [http://mastishk-nitie.blogspot.com/2004/10/making-of-arbit.html Making of Arbit Choudhury]<br />
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110521151202/http://www.onlinecomics.net/pages/details/listing.php?comicID=7937 Listing at Onlinecomics.net]<br />
* [http://managementinformatika.blogspot.com/2007/09/exclusive-interview-with-arbit.html Interview of Creators]<br />
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[[Category:2000s webcomics]]<br />
[[Category:School webcomics]]<br />
[[Category:Coming-of-age webcomics]]<br />
[[Category:Student culture in India]]<br />
[[Category:2004 webcomic debuts]]<br />
[[Category:Indian webcomics]]<br />
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