Vol 5 No 3 | Oct-Dec 2025 The Burning Stories Story by Anupam Arunachalam | Art by Biboswan Bose   The story of Gunadhya… Is a legend that offers a glimpse of truth. It speaks of a court poet who lost a wager and thus lost the privilege of composing in Sanskrit. He exiled himself […]

Vol 5 No 3 | Oct-Dec 2025 The Last Song of the Desert Story by Nita Bajoria | Art by Somil Porwal   The inspiration behind the comic From Nita Bajoria, the writer of this comic: Though we are from Rajasthan, my parents and in-laws converse with me in Hindi. My in-laws converse with each […]

Vol 5 No 3 | Oct-Dec 2025 Konkani Mai Story by Francesca Cotta | Art by Bina Nayak   Based on a true story… From writer Francesca Cotta: This comic is inspired by real events that took place on 20 December, 1986. My parents were actually married on that day. The riots and escalating tensions […]

Vol 5 No 3 | Oct-Dec 2025 Found in Translation Story by Sheela Jaywant | Art by Anirban Dasgupta   This piece is a humourous take on how idioms in one language can be nonsensical in another. The entire text of the piece is reproduced below. We have a new neighbour, a male nurse. At […]

Vol 5 No 3 | Oct-Dec 2025 Walking English Talking English Story by Rajesh Devraj | Art by Meren Imchen   English in India: A Brief History English first arrived in India a long time ago, with traders and missionaries in the 1600s, even before the British began ruling the country. Interestingly, English was the […]

Vol 5 No 3 | Oct-Dec 2025 Politics of Language Text and art by Suhail Naqshbandi   Koshur: A language that reflects the heritage of Kashmir Koshur is a distinct Indo-Aryan language spoken primarily in the Kashmir Valley. As a member of the Dardic subgroup, it possesses a unique linguistic identity, characterised by its rich […]

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/