Nita Bajoria Writer Nita has an MFA degree in creative writing and is fond of travelling. She has penned a series of graphic novels titled ‘Urban Chronicles’. Urban women’s fiction is her forte. Insta: bajorianita In Comixense: The Last Song of the Desert (Vol 5 Issue 3 | Oct-Dec 2025), The Game (Vol 4 Issue […]
Pia Alize Hazarika Artist is an illustrator primarily interested in comics and visual narrative. Her independent/collaborative work has been published by Penguin India (The PAO Anthology), COMIX.INDIA, Manta Ray Comics, The Pulpocracy, Captain Bijli Comics, Yoda Press, Zubaan Books and the Khoj Artists Collective. She runs ‘PIG studio’, an illustration-driven space, based out of New […]
Sanid Asif Ali Writer Sanid is a comic writer-illustrator from Kochi. He runs an independent comic publishing house Studio Niyet with his wife Rameeza Parveen. He has acted as the co-editor of the anthology comic Hope On, a collection of real-life stories of women who find hope in tough circumstances, and has created comic books […]
Vol 5 Issue 2 | July-Sep 2025 Quiz: Tales from The Script First part of a quiz on the way languages are written The second part of this quiz can be accessed here: Quiz 2 1. The Edicts of Ashoka and other writings from that era (3rd to 1st century BCE) were written […]
Vol 5 No 2 | Jul-Sep 2025 The First Language War Story by CG Salamander | Art by Kruttika Susarla The Struggle Continues The Anti-Hindi Agitation in Tamil Nadu was a series of protests by people in Tamil Nadu who didn’t want to learn or use the Hindi language. It started in the 1930s […]
Vol 5 No 2 | Jul-Sep 2025 The Poet Who Became a Tree Story and art by Orijit Sen This piece by Orijit Sen about Kabir, his poetry and his philosophy is an extract from a longer piece titled “Hair Burns Like Grass” that first appeared in the Pao Anthology of comics, published by […]
Vol 5 No 2 | Jul-Sep 2025 I Have Seen It Story by Cordelia Francis | Art by Lokesh Khodke About the book Garcia de Orta’s ‘Colóquios dos Simples e Drogas da India’ (1563) was a ground-breaking treatise on Indian medicinal plants and spices, written in Portuguese and structured as a dialogue between Orta […]
Vol 5 No 2 | Jul-Sep 2025 A Dad Joke a Day Story by Mohd Salman | Art by Haasini Casukhela In this entertaining piece, Mohd Salman and Haasini Casukhela, punsters themselves, imagine a salon where other pun-dits from across the ages and around the world gather, and indulge their particular fascination. https://www.npr.org/2011/05/15/136253845/not-jest-for-pun-a-surprising-history-of-wordplay https://www.themarginalian.org/2011/04/14/a-brief-history-of-the-pun/
Vol 5 No 2 | Jul-Sep 2025 Biryani Khaane Jayinge Story and art by Hallubol (Rahil Mohsin and Amaya Alankrita) Hallubol—A Dakhni initiative Hallubol is a multimedia initiative Alankrita and I started in early 2023. It is our hope to create narratives deeply rooted in the lives of Dakhni speakers, capturing their everyday experiences, […]
Volume 5 Issue 2 The stories in this issue looks at the multifarious aspects of language and meaning. The First Language War is an account of the first anti-Hindi agitation of the Tamil people in 1938. The Poet Who Became a Tree is an excerpt from a longer comic about the legacy of the enigmatic […]
