Vol 2 No 4 | Jan-Mar 2023 A River Runs Through It Story and art by Pankaj Saikia   The story is inspired from a folktale of the Mising tribe about a woman who transforms into Sishu, the river dolphin found in the Brahmaputra river valley. The indigenous tribes of the region, like the Mising, […]

Vol 3 No 3 | Oct-Dec 2023 Goodbye GPLO Story by Francesca Cotta | Art by Haasini Casukhela   Coping with grief Losing a loved one is a painful experience. Whether they were young or old, whether their death was expected or sudden, the loss leaves us sad and distressed. These feelings are a natural […]

  Vol 2 No 3 | Oct-Dec 2022 Homebound Story by Nathaniel da Costa | Art by Ishanou Rana The story behind ‘Homebound’ was inspired by multiple incidents around human-made tragedies but mainly from the disaster at Fukushima, Japan. In 2011, there was a nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Ōkuma, […]

  Vol 2 No 3 | Oct-Dec 2022 Mother We will Eat the Satphool! Story and art by Pankaj Saikia This story was inspired by the popular Assamese song “Maa ami Sadiyaloi Jamei” (“Mother we will go to Sadiya”) written by Keshab Mahanta and composed and beautifully sung by the legendary Khagen Mahanta: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVwJkYF57E0 Here’s […]

  Vol 2 No 3 | Oct-Dec 2022 An Event in the Life of Kolynos Thankaraj Story and art by Prakash Moorthy   This comic is a quirky satirical story, centring around a forest guard who only wanted to be a desk clerk, and an extraordinary incident that rounds off his day of retirement. The […]

  Vol 2 No 3 | Oct-Dec 2022 Mynatai Lonkar Story by Sheela Jaywant | Art by Abhijeet Kini   For over 150 years, Bombay was known for her wealth. Her riches passed through her busy port and natural harbour, true, but it was generated largely by several cotton textile mills. The ‘girnis’ as the […]

  Vol 2 No 3 | Oct-Dec 2022 The Discovery of J. Baret Story by Francesca Cotta | Art by Pakhi Sen   The first woman to sail the world Jeanne Baret was the first woman known to have sailed around the world. She came on board the Etoile as the ship’s naturalist Philibert Commerson’s […]