Comic hero

IN Media Watch Briefs | 30/09/2016

Amar Chitra Katha, one of the largest selling comic book series in India, is coming out with a special edition where the PM is lauded for launching the Swachh Bharat campaign, reports The Economic Times. The special issue, which will be unveiled on Friday, tells school children: "Modiji knows how to make the impossible possible". This comes as the Swachh Bharat mission completes its second anniversary on October 2. After Modi's decisive action against Pakistan-sponsored terrorism, which saw the Army carrying out surgical strikes across the Line of Control, perhaps Amar Chitra Katha is already thinking of another special edition eulogising him.

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