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'''The Legend Yogendra Rastogi''' is one of the most famous calendar art painters of North India .<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.hindu.com/fr/2005/07/15/stories/2005071501550300.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071203093353/http://www.hindu.com/fr/2005/07/15/stories/2005071501550300.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=2007-12-03 |title=Slow dies the calendar art |author=Gayatri Sinha |author-link=Gayatri Sinha |newspaper=[[The Hindu]] |date=2005-07-15 }}</ref> He is noted for his paintings of Hindu deities which contributed to the visual mass culture of India.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Indian calendar art: the popular picture story|url=https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/openindia/indian-calendar-art-popular-picture-story/|access-date=2021-03-09|website=openDemocracy|language=en}}</ref> His painting studio is in [[Meerut]] He died at the age of 76 on 29 August 2015.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bhaskar.com/news/UP-MEER-famous-calendar-art-painter-yogendra-rastogi-died-in-meerut-5101689-PHO.html|title=धार्मिक कैलेंडर के लिए मशहूर थे ये चित्रकार, जवाहर लाल नेहरू ने भी किया था सम्मानित|date=2015-09-02|access-date=2016-08-14}}</ref><br />
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== Early life ==<br />
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Rastogi was a self-taught artist. He was unable to continue his education because of poverty. In the absence of funds to purchase either adequate paint or paper, he developed his painting skills. As the eldest son and in the attempt to feed the family, he started decorating and sign-painting in [[Meerut]], taking whatever work was available.<ref name="Pinney2004">{{cite book |author=Christopher Pinney |title='Photos of the Gods': The Printed Image and Political Struggle in India |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8hhXq7hpzSwC&pg=PA171 |year=2004 |publisher=Reaktion Books |isbn=978-1-86189-184-6 |pages=167–171}}</ref><br />
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Since he first painted the boy soldier during the Indo-China war, the famous Nanha Munna Rahi, Rastogi had graduated to owning two printing presses devoted to his work.{{citation needed|date=March 2019}}<br />
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