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'''Yusuf Lien''' also known as '''Yusuf Bangalorewala''' is an [[India]]n [[book illustration|book illustrator]] best known for his work on the [[Amar Chitra Katha]] comic book series, which deals with subjects from Indian myth, legend and history. His dream-like sensual work on the titles ''Tansen'' and ''Mirabai'' is admired by many who believe he had one of the most distinctive styles among the Amar Chitra Katha artists. According to researcher John Stratton Hawley, the Amar Chitra Katha staff took a 'nonsectarian pride' that the exquisite depictions of [[Krishna]] in ''Mirabai'' were the work of a [[Muslim]] artist, who as his editor [[Anant Pai]] described it, would be in tears as he drew his frames for the comic book.<ref>{{cite book|last=Hawley|first=John Stratton|title='The Saints Subdued: Domestic Virtue and National Integration in Amar Chitra Katha'|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=cgDHFFe7YM8C&pg=PA120&dq=Yusuf+Lien&hl=en&sa=X&ei=dD5kT4KoK8aHrAei14m9Bw&ved=0CDwQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=Yusuf%20Lien&f=false Media and the Transformation of Religion in South Asia] (eds. Lawrence A Babb, Susan S. Wadley)}}</ref> Yusuf also painted the image of the child Krishna seen on the cover of the comic book of the same name.<br />
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Yusuf eventually gave up drawing comics, considering the work '[[haraam]]' and took up [[calligraphy]].<ref>http://yuganta.blogspot.in/2006/02/favourites-from-amar-chitra-katha.html</ref> He later told Nandini Chandra, author of ''The Classic Popular: Amar Chitra Katha, 1967-2007'' that he found the series' depictions of Muslims problematic.<ref>{{cite book|last=Chandra|first=Nandini|title=The classic popular: Amar Chitra Katha, 1967-2007|year=2008|publisher=Yoda Press|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_gNdNQAACAAJ&dq=nandini+chandra&hl=en&sa=X&ei=cztkT7iZNsSJrAeu_ZG9Bw&ved=0CDcQ6AEwAA}}</ref><br />
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