Dr Eleanor Chiari Writer Eleanor is Associate Professor (Teaching) and Programme Director for the BA Language and Culture course in the School of European Languages, Cultures and Society at University College London, UK. She specialises in history, cultural memory and visual culture. Web: https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/15324-eleanor-chiari In Comixense: Flying off the Shelves (Vol 5 Issue 4 | […]
Derek Almeida Writer Former editor of ‘The Goan Everyday’ who retired five years ago to discover the true meaning of susegado. While on the journey to finding bliss, which is an ongoing one, he found time to write for a Delhi-based magazine, ‘Civil Society’ and try his hand at cooking, a work in need of […]
Volume 3 Issue 4 This issue titled ‘Living Colour’ offers various interpretations of the visible spectrum. Skin Deep is a sensitive story of a young girl coming to terms with the colour of her skin. Emerald Apsara is a wordless comic about the adventures of Professor P.R Mazoomder. The spy story Kamma Chameleon is about […]
Vol 3 No 4 | Jan-Mar 2024 Skin Deep Story by Sheela Jaywant | Art by Triparna Maiti The biology of skin colour There have over time been many different theories as to why different people have different skin colour. Current scientific thought has it that it is due to a process of evolution […]
Vol 3 No 4 | Jan-Mar 2024 Emerald Apsara Story and art by Orijit Sen This is a wordless fantasy comic, set in a haveli in Rajasthan, that has as its protagonist Professor P.R. Mazoomder, a Bengali inventor in a monkey cap whom the artist Orijit Sen has used in cameo or side roles […]
Vol 3 No 4 | Jan-Mar 2024 Kamma Chameleon Story by Varud Gupta | Art by Keya Lall Camouflage in the natural world Chameleons are renowned for their ability to change colours to blend in with their environment. This remarkable natural ability is due to specialised cells called chromatophores which rest beneath their outer […]
Vol 3 No 4 | Jan-Mar 2024 True Colours Story by Soham Dey | Art by Haasini Casukhela A brief history of dye Although hair colouring, especially bright hair colour, may seem like a modern trend popular amongst young people, the tradition of artificially colouring hair stretches back to ancient times. The practice was […]
Vol 3 No 4 | Jan-Mar 2024 The Invisible Colour Story and art by Anupam Arunachalam Isaac Newton and the science of colours Sir Isaac Newton was a polymath with a scientific output so prolific, a glance at his achievements is more sizeable than the work of many others put together. His work on […]
Vol 3 No 4 | Jan-Mar 2024 Indigo Nation Story by Mohd Salman | Art by Anupam Arunachalam Indigo: A pigment of the oppressive imagination Marco Polo reported the cultivation of indigo in India as far back as the 1300s. Under British colonial rule, indigo became another of the many resources used to generate […]
Sarat T. Rao Writer Sarat T. Rao is a musician who loves writing speculative fiction. After studying economics, statistics and mathematics for five years, he ended up doing research for a film on Srinivasa Ramanujan. Then he worked at a bank for some time but continued writing. Story-telling merged with film, and he made a […]
