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Trading Words

Vol 4 No 3 | Oct-Dec 2024 Trading Words Story by Sanjana Kapur | Art by Shefalee Jain This heart-warming story depicts the relationship, fostered during daily commutes on Mumbai’s suburban trains, of an old grandmother and a young conservationist. The former has food advice and recipes to give to the young motherless woman, while […]

Quiz: Cruel and Unusual

Volume 4 Issue 2 | July-September 2024 Quiz: Cruel and Unusual In this short quiz, we listed a number of scenarios and asked readers to select what they thought was a fair judgement. Here’s what happened in real life…   Sarah Reed, a British woman, had a history of mental illness. In 2012, she was […]

Vol 4 Issue 2 July-Sept 2024

Volume 4 Issue 2 Cupid’s Crime is based on the harrowing imprisonment of a young man wrongly accused by his girlfriend’s parents in a bid to keep them apart. Silent Revelations narrates a childhood incident that shaped a young man’s career choice to fight for justice. Whose Crime Is It Anyway? explores the human-animal conflicts […]

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Cupid’s Crime

  Vol 4 No 2 | July-Sept 2024 Cupid’s Crime Story by Arun Ferreira | Art by Rajiv Eipe   The POCSO Act This story is based on the POCSO (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences) Act. It was enacted in 2012 with the laudable objective of protecting children from offences of sexual assault, sexual […]

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Silent Revelations

  Vol 4 No 2 | July-Sept 2024 Silent Revelations Story and art by Amalendu Kaushik   This story touches on an incident that significantly influenced its protagonist’s life. The Better India site has a lot of stories on what motivated individuals to take the paths in life that they did. You can read those […]

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Jellibeen Jeopardy

Vol 4 No 2 | July-Sept 2024 Jellibeen Jeopardy Story and art by Shannon   Shannon’s flight of fancy takes the reader to another galaxy in telling its tale of the absurdity of some laws. However, you don’t need to look that far to come across laws that, on the face of it, make no […]

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If You Kill

  Vol 4 No 2 | July-Sept 2024 If You Kill Story by Salil Chaturvedi | Art by Haasini Casukhela   This piece in Comixense is a visualisation of the poem ‘if you kill’, which appeared in poet Salil Chaturvedi’s first poetry anthology, ‘In the Sanctuary of a Poem’  first published in 2017.  

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The Darogha’s Soul

Vol 4 No 2 | July-Sept 2024 The Darogha’s Soul Story by Mohd Salman | Art by Annada Menon   People over principles “Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right!” – Isaac Asimov, ‘Foundation’ “There’s no grays, only white that’s got grubby. I’m surprised you don’t know that. And […]

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Nathaniel da Costa

Nathaniel da Costa Writer Nathaniel da Costa juggles his time between coaching football, running a bar and trying to get seven hours of sleep. He lives in Goa, likes old trees, and Neil Gaiman. Nathaniel collects comics, river pebbles and bad ideas. This is his first comic. LinkedIn: nathaniel-da-costa-3a96b368 In Comixense: The Ferryman (Vol 2 […]