Varud Gupta Writer Varud is the award-winning author of the graphic novel Chhotu: A Tale of Love and Partition (Comic Con India “Best Writer”) and the travelogue Bhagwaan Ke Pakwaan: Food of the Gods (Gourmand for “Peace”). His writing also frequently appears in National Geographic Traveller and Mint Lounge. He began his career as a […]
Triparna Maiti
Triparna Maiti Artist Triparna Maiti is an animation artist, illustrator and writer. She is an alumna of the Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute (SRFTI), Kolkata with specialisation in Animation Cinema. Her latest short film ‘Neer’ (‘Water’) has been an official selection at various prestigious festivals like Anifilm in Třeboň, Czech Republic, Monstra in Lisbon, […]
Quizzes and games
Quizzes and games This section consists of pages with answers to quizzes and games featured in Comixense magazine. Quiz: Tales from the Script Vol 5 Issue 2 | July-Sep 2025 A small set of quiz questions on languages and the way they are written, covering scripts across history and geography, from ancient India and […]
Quiz: Spy gadgets
Volume 1 Issue 3 | October-December 2021 Quiz: Spy gadgets James Bond has his marvellous gadgets that may be too good to be true, but real-life spies and agencies have also used mindboggling tools to carry out their espionage activities. This article took a peek at these, and featured quiz questions related to some […]
Challenge: Code-breaking
Volume 1 Issue 3 | October-December 2021 Challenge: Code-breaking Fatima, Amay, Mani and Piyali – who refer to themselves as the Fundoo 4 – enjoy doing exciting things during their holidays. In this challenge, Piyali has set the others a series of coded messages, which you have to decipher. Here are the solutions. The […]
Vol 1 Issue 3 October-December 2021
Volume 1 Issue 3 The October 2021 issue of Comixense begins with Hum Dekhenge, where two roommates in a girls’ hostel conspire to stand up to the stifling rules of their institution. In Bond… Jamal Bond, an agent with high-flying dreams finds himself ensnared in a tale of two borders. On the House is a […]
Hum Dekhenge
Vol 1 Issue 3 | October-December 2021 Hum Dekhenge Story by Francesca Cotta | Art by Kruttika Susarla Hum Dekhenge In 2013, I left my home in Goa to attend college in Pune. As with most of the first-year students, my parents found me a hostel in the vicinity of my new campus. The […]
Bond… Jamal Bond
Vol 1 Issue 3 | October-December 2021 Bond… Jamal Bond Story and art by Suhail Naqshbandi This story in Comixense was inspired by a real-life incident from May 2020, where a pigeon was ‘captured’ by villagers near the border between the Indian- and Pakistani-controlled regions of Kashmir. It was held suspect as it had a […]
On The House
Vol 1 Issue 3 | October-December 2021 On The House Story by Varud Gupta | Art by Harsho Mohan Chattoraj On The House is not just a story for these pages. It exists as a cautionary tale of the voices around us and the inequality in India that divides us. So, if you have […]
The Fourth of the Three
Vol 1 Issue 3 | October-December 2021 The Fourth of the Three Story by Indrajit Hazra | Art by Mad Paule Vasco da Gama The first European to reach India via the Cape of Good Hope was the Portuguese sea captain, Vasco da Gama (c. 1460 – 1524). Much of the real man – […]