Rini Joseph Writer Rini is a multi-disciplinary artist who works with paintings, ceramics, poetry and embroidery. She is an anti-caste feminist currently working under a visual arts grant provided by Mavelinadu Collective. She enjoys birding, rock pooling and people-watching by the beach in her free time. She finds inspiration in getting lost in nature and […]
Avik Kumar Maitra
Avik Kumar Maitra Artist Avik Kumar Maitra is a freelance comics artist and illustrator from Kolkata. Apart from a few years of weekend art classes in his childhood, he is completely self-taught. Although still in college when he started illustrating in the famous Bengali children’s magazine Sandesh, it was while working as a researcher in […]
Nandita Basu
Nandita Basu Writer Nandita Basu is a pianist and a graphic novelist. She juggles between teaching the piano and writing graphic novels and trying not to do anything at all. Her graphic novels ‘The Piano, a story of a friendship’ and ‘Rain Must Fall’ have been published by PRH Duckbill. Several of her other independent […]
Haasini Casukhela
Haasini Casukhela Artist Haasini Casukhela loves storytelling and occasionally captures her experiences with people and food in illustrations and designs. She can often be found escaping into a fantastical realm of dragon quests, useless facts, fluffy clouds, bean bags, and delectable chocolate cake. Insta: somewhere_yellow In Comixense: Here I Like the Sounds (Vol 2 Issue […]
Kavita Singh Kale
Kavita Singh Kale Artist An alumna of NID Ahmedabad & College of Art Delhi University, Kavita Singh Kale has 15 years of industry experience in broadcast design, children’s content creation, animation filmmaking and transmedia art practice. She has illustrated for a wide range of clients in publishing for both adults and children. Kavita is the […]
Jay Kshirsagar
Jay Kshirsagar Writer Jay Kshirsagar has often thought of his life as an experiment. A series of what-ifs that tends to lead him to ways of living that are improvised and that break any patterns of orthodoxy that are bound to build up over time. In art, he is able to focus on himself or […]
Orijit Sen
Orijit Sen Writer and artist Orijit Sen is a graphic artist, muralist, cartoonist and designer. He is a co-founder of People Tree, a collaborative studio and store for artists, designers and craftspeople. Along with his wife and fellow designer Gurpreet Sidhu, he leads People Tree’s in-house design studios in New Delhi and Goa. Orijit is […]
Francesca Cotta
Francesca Cotta Writer Francesca is a creative writer, editor, qualitative researcher and activist from Goa. She has created content for organisations and movements in the field of responsible travel, sustainable lifestyle, alternative education and environmental justice, among others. In 2020, she was a Sahapedia EXPLORE Fellow. She also worked at Soup Magazine as an editorial […]
Mohammad Salman
Mohammad Salman Writer is a development communications professional and speculative fiction writer from Lucknow. His work has appeared in the Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction, Kitaab and other anthologies. Salman counts Terry Pratchett and Isaac Asimov among his inspirations, dreaming of creating a legendarium of his own one day. He has a Bachelor’s […]
Ishanou Rana
Ishanou Rana Artist Ishanou Rana, more famously known as Godot, is an Indian artist with a nomadic eye. From paint to ink to digital art, his wide array of styles and methods are nevertheless easily recognisable and show a practised skill and playful exploration. Making pictures since he could hold a pencil, he deftly draws […]