Vol 5 No 4 | Jan-Mar 2026 Savage Beast Story by Sanid Asif Ali | Art by Mohammed Ijaz   Origin of the title of this comic During the 1800s, white American settlers and the United States government supported the mass killing of the American bison to weaken and control Indigenous people. An Indian Affairs […]

Vol 5 No 4 | Jan-Mar 2026 The Artefact Story by Mohd Salman | Art by Annada Menon   History is exciting. It is vast, complicated and often messy. It demands an open mind for ideas and perspectives different from our own. It requires dull things such as nuance and context, even from the casual […]

Vol 5 No 4 | Jan-Mar 2026 A Whiff of Rice and Gunpowder. Story and art by Amalendu Kaushik   A Personal Memory, Not Just History This is a personal story. It is rooted in memories passed down from my mother’s childhood in Assam during the 1980s and early ’90s, a time when everyday life […]

Vol 5 No 4 | Jan-Mar 2026 Flying off the Shelves Story by Eleanor Chiari and Subir Dey | Art by Subir Dey   Our comic is set at the end of the 19th century and traces the movement of a single bird, an Asian Fairy Blue Bird, from its home in Bengal, to a […]

Vol 5 No 4 | Jan-Mar 2026 The Story of Mahabali Story and art by Pranav P. Holla   The comic explores the multiple identities of Mahabali, the great Asura King whom Malayalis all over the world revere and welcome during the festival of Onam. Currently, a single image of Mahabali dominates storefronts, banners and […]

Vol 5 No 4 | Jan-Mar 2026 Nana’s House Story by Sanjana Kapur | Art by Samidha Gunjal   My history Around the time I turned 17, I started realising all the interesting lives my grandparents and parents had lived, and I decided to question them more. I felt a need to know where I […]

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 […]