Tokai (Bangla: টোকাই), transliterated as Tokaii, is the longest survived cartoon character of Bangladesh, is a creation of Rafiqun Nabi or Ronobi, as he is widely known.

Tokai, a street urchin of age below ten, is not only a character, it is a phenomenon in Bangladesh, acting as a witty outlet of the feelings of the people about current political and socio-economic condition of the nation.

[1] In fact the word tokai has become the colloquial synonym for street kids or dumpster divers in Bangladesh.

Tokai, who represents the most deprived people in the society, is the most loved cartoon character in Bangladesh.

Apart from a six-month break, Tokai has never been absent from making fun of current political and/or social issues.

Upon receiving such enthusiasm among the readers, Ronobi began to use Tokai to express his own observations about Bangladeshi society in the hope that it might influence politicians and policy makers.

Despite his apparent destitute status, he is always cheerful making fun and uttering witty scathing reflections on things around him, which constitute contemporary society.

The precocious talkativeness is a major attribute of Tokai, as is his usual Dhakaiya language (Regional pronunciation of Dhaka).

He is known by the name of his class rather than a proper name Tokai has a very nice sense of humour and a knack of telling simple yet painful truths.

Tokai is always pointing at the hypocrisy and inhumanity, anomalies and loopholes of the society with a playful witty language.

In another cartoon, when someone expresses surprise at his swollen belly, a smiling Tokai reasons that he has 'eaten' a lot of 'speeches' given on the occasion of the Children's Day.

To the fantasy of a crow wondering what would happen if it could exchange life with Tokai, the puzzled boy answers, 'What else!