Personal Info

Professionally Aswini kumar Rath, Ph. D. heads the Department of Botany in a College, while his younger sibling Abani Kumar Rath, M.Sc. is an Officer in a public sector Insurance Organisation. They are working jointly in the field of Cartooning for more than two decades & represent the only Cartoonist Brother Duo of the World under the banner 'aswiniabani'. They have numerous publications in the form of Cartoons, Caricatures, Comic Strips, Illustrations, Cover-pages, Logos etc. in both print and electronic media.


CARTOONS IN CONFERENCES/SEMINARS:

- Cartoons displayed in the National Conf. on Innovations and Prospects in Life Scs. School of Life Scs., Pt. Ravishankar Univ., Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India. Dec.2002.

- Specially invited Paper on Anatomy of Autonomy (Cartoons) in the National Seminar on Implementation and Management of Autonomy in Disadvantaged Colleges of Backward Areas. at Rajendra College, Bolangir, India. Jan. 2006.

- Caricatures displayed by Prof. M.K. Unnikrishnan, M.C.P.S., Manipal University at TED seminar, May 2010.


CARTOONS FOR TV CHANNELS:

- Worked for E-TV Oriya to design the promo and cast of some programmes.

- Drawn cartoon for O-TV to design the promo and cast of some programmes.

JURY MEMBERS

- Convener Jury Members of the P. C. Rath Memorial International Web Cartoon Contests 2009 & 2010.


HONOURS AND AWARDS
(Either individually or jointly)

- Grand Prize in the International International Net Oil Cartoon Contest on Oil-2010, France.

- Honourable mention award in the DICACO-2009, South Korea.

- Cartoon exhibited in the prestigious “First International Salon of Graphic Humor-Lima, 2008”, Peru.

- Honourable mention award in the DICACO-2008, South Korea.

- Honourable mention award in the DICACO-2007, South Korea.

- Honourable mention award in the DICACO- 2006, South Korea.

- Honourable mention award in the 1st Indian International Cartoon Contest-2004, Organized by FPC, India.

- Special mention prize in the 2nd FreeCartoonsWeb International Cartoonet Festival-2003, China.

- First prize in the All India Open Cartoon Contest -2001 organized by The New Indian Express. India.

- First Prize in the Open Cartoon Contest -1994 organized by Bhilai Steel Plant, India.

- Prize in The Hindustan Times Cartoon Contest 1994 organized by The Hindustan Times. India.

- First Prize in the Open Cartoon Contest-1993 organized by Bhilai Steel Plant, India.

- Second prize in Science Cartoon Contest organized by Science Reporter, New Delhi. India.

- Consolation Prize in the Cartoon Competition organized on ‘NCDRLD-1992’ by PRIA, New Delhi, India.

- Cartoons published in the prestigious volume named ‘Oil and Cartoon’ authored by Bayram Hajizadeh (President, ACU), Azerbaijan. 2010.

- Cartoons in the selected entries in the 2nd and 3rd Indian International Cartoon Contest, Organized by FPC, India (published in the catalogue).

- Cartoons published as Entries with Merit in Science Cartoon Contest organized by Science Reporter, New Delhi, India.

- First Prize in the ‘Omkar Memorial Cartoon Contest ’ organized by Govt. of Orissa, India.

- Cartoon and caricatures exhibited in the Prestigious ‘The Hindustan Times Cartoon Contest’.

- Felicitated by NCWA, Bengaluru, 2010.

- Felicitated with “Chitrasamudra Award” by DCC, Kalahandi on the occasion of All India Painting Exhibition and Workshop organized by DCC, Kalahandi & Lalit Kala Academy, Odisha, Bhawanipatna, 2010.

- Felicitated by Padmashree Dilip Tirkey on the occasion of 'Chak De Dilip' exhibition at Rastriya Latit Kela Kendra, Bhubaneswar, 2009.

- Felicitated with “Guru Sri Prafulla Pradhan Memorial Award” by Pancham.

- Adjudged ‘Best Cartoonist of the Year 1994 ’ by Bolangir Municipality on the occasion of Local Self Govt. Day celebration.

- Felicitated by ‘Prajatantra Prachar Samiti ‘ on the occasion of Golden Jubilee Celebration of “Prajatantra “.

- Felicitated by Lions Club, Patnagarh.

- Felicitated by Rudra Awhan, Bolangir.

- Honoured by Zilla Lekhaka Parisad, Bolangir.

- Honoured by Barpali College on the Occasion of ‘Basanti Festival’, Barpali.

- Honoured by CNC on the Occasion of ‘1st Annual Day Celebration’, Bolangir.

- Cartoon short listed for Prize and incorporated in the Souvenir published by National Cancer Foundation, New Delhi on the eve of No Tobacco Day- 1992.

- Members of the prestigious Cartoonists’ Forum, APCA (USA).

- Associated with world’s known web greetings distribution Co. Studio 123greetings.com INC, USA.

- Cartoons exhibited all over the world and India.

- Conducted Cartoon Workshops at various places.