Vol 4 No 3 | Oct-Dec 2024 U-Turn Concept, storyline and art by Nayna Yadav | Story detailing by Salil Chaturvedi This is a silent comic about the ups and downs of life, and how they compel one to make certain trade-offs.

Vol 4 No 3 | Oct-Dec 2024 Will to Live Story and art by Mia Jose This is comic looks at the world of a non-binary person and how they tend to be forced by societal factors to ‘fit in’. In the words of the author: We used to think of gender as a binary, […]

Vol 4 No 3 | Oct-Dec 2024 The Indian Ice Trade Story by CG Salamander | Art by Prabha Mallya   Frederic Tudor: Sending American ice to India This comic in Comixense magazine tells the astonishing story of Frederic Tudor who came up with the madcap scheme of cooling the British in India by shipping […]

Vol 4 No 3 | Oct-Dec 2024 Trading Words Story by Sanjana Kapur | Art by Shefalee Jain This heart-warming story depicts the relationship, fostered during daily commutes on Mumbai’s suburban trains, of an old grandmother and a young conservationist. The former has food advice and recipes to give to the young motherless woman, while […]

  Vol 4 No 2 | July-Sept 2024 Cupid’s Crime Story by Arun Ferreira | Art by Rajiv Eipe   The POCSO Act This story is based on the POCSO (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences) Act. It was enacted in 2012 with the laudable objective of protecting children from offences of sexual assault, sexual […]

  Vol 4 No 2 | July-Sept 2024 Silent Revelations Story and art by Amalendu Kaushik   This story touches on an incident that significantly influenced its protagonist’s life. The Better India site has a lot of stories on what motivated individuals to take the paths in life that they did. You can read those […]

Vol 4 No 2 | July-Sept 2024 Whose Crime is it Anyway? Story by Aastha Tiku and Amit Masurkar | Art by Mohith O   Avni the tigress Avni, also known as T1, was a female tiger living in the forests of Maharashtra’s Pandharkawada in Yavatmal district. Born in 2010, she came to represent the […]

Vol 4 No 2 | July-Sept 2024 Jellibeen Jeopardy Story and art by Shannon   Shannon’s flight of fancy takes the reader to another galaxy in telling its tale of the absurdity of some laws. However, you don’t need to look that far to come across laws that, on the face of it, make no […]

  Vol 4 No 2 | July-Sept 2024 If You Kill Story by Salil Chaturvedi | Art by Haasini Casukhela   This piece in Comixense is a visualisation of the poem ‘if you kill’, which appeared in poet Salil Chaturvedi’s first poetry anthology, ‘In the Sanctuary of a Poem’  first published in 2017.  

Vol 4 No 2 | July-Sept 2024 The Darogha’s Soul Story by Mohd Salman | Art by Annada Menon   People over principles “Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right!” – Isaac Asimov, ‘Foundation’ “There’s no grays, only white that’s got grubby. I’m surprised you don’t know that. And […]