Vol 4 No 1 | Apr-Jun 2024 The Tell-tale Tails Story and art by Pankaj Saikia   What is siyal/sel roti? Sel roti is a delicacy made during the great Nepali festivals of Dashain and Tihar. You will also find these sweetish-sour doughnuts at big celebrations like weddings and other ceremonies. Although they are native […]

Vol 3 No 4 | Jan-Mar 2024 Skin Deep Story by Sheela Jaywant | Art by Triparna Maiti   The biology of skin colour There have over time been many different theories as to why different people have different skin colour. Current scientific thought has it that it is due to a process of evolution […]

Vol 3 No 4 | Jan-Mar 2024 Emerald Apsara Story and art by Orijit Sen   This is a wordless fantasy comic, set in a haveli in Rajasthan, that has as its protagonist Professor P.R. Mazoomder, a Bengali inventor in a monkey cap whom the artist Orijit Sen has used in cameo or side roles […]

Vol 3 No 4 | Jan-Mar 2024 Kamma Chameleon Story by Varud Gupta | Art by Keya Lall   Camouflage in the natural world Chameleons are renowned for their ability to change colours to blend in with their environment. This remarkable natural ability is due to specialised cells called chromatophores which rest beneath their outer […]

Vol 3 No 4 | Jan-Mar 2024 True Colours Story by Soham Dey | Art by Haasini Casukhela   A brief history of dye Although hair colouring, especially bright hair colour, may seem like a modern trend popular amongst young people, the tradition of artificially colouring hair stretches back to ancient times. The practice was […]

Vol 3 No 4 | Jan-Mar 2024 The Invisible Colour Story and art by Anupam Arunachalam   Isaac Newton and the science of colours Sir Isaac Newton was a polymath with a scientific output so prolific, a glance at his achievements is more sizeable than the work of many others put together. His work on […]

Vol 3 No 4 | Jan-Mar 2024 Indigo Nation Story by Mohd Salman | Art by Anupam Arunachalam   Indigo: A pigment of the oppressive imagination Marco Polo reported the cultivation of indigo in India as far back as the 1300s. Under British colonial rule, indigo became another of the many resources used to generate […]

Vol 3 No 3 | Oct-Dec 2023 Love Again Story by Derek Almeida | Art by Mad Paule   Shrinking populations A study commissioned by the non-profit organisation, The Club of Rome has predicted that the world’s population would peak at 8.6 billion by 2050 and then rapidly decline to 6 billion by the end […]

Vol 3 No 2 | Jul-Sep 2023 The Poet and the Prisoner Story by Cordelia B. Francis | Art by Pia Alize Hazarika   About AI AI (artificial intelligence) is the imitation of human intelligence processes by machines, especially computer systems. Many of us are already familiar with ChatGPT. This is a large language model […]

Vol 3 No 2 | Jul-Sep 2023 Along Came A Spider Story and art Samidha Gunjal Creatures in the natural world use a wide variety of ‘performance’ techniques to find mates and procreate. In this story, the artist Samidha visualises the antics of the tiny peacock spider in this quest, with a touch of affectionate […]