Vol 1 Issue 4 | January-March 2022 The Cave Painters Story by Mohd Salman | Art by Archana Sreenivasan   The Mystery of Cave Paintings Prehistoric cave paintings are among the most fascinating relics left behind by our ancestors. They belong to a time when the human struggle for survival was far more intense. […]

  Vol 1 Issue 4 | January-March 2022 Tattoo Story by Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar | Art by Partha Banik   How is a tattoo made? A tattoo is a permanent design made on the skin by inserting ink into the dermis layer using needles. This is usually a painful process – getting a tattoo essentially […]

  Vol 1 Issue 4 | January-March 2022 The Tyranny of Beauty Text and art by Priyanka Paul   Social media and body image Studies show that the constant exposure to thin, fit and “idealised” body types and features on social media tends to negatively affect body image, particularly in young women, who tend to […]

  Vol 1 Issue 4 | January-March 2022 Sitara Devi Story by Rupleena Bose | Art by Nayna Yadav   Mind the gap! In 2015, the Live Mint conducted a study of 925 Bollywood films, released between 1990 and 2015, starring the 20 top male actors in the industry. The results of the analysis revealed […]

  Vol 1 Issue 4 | January-March 2022 Died in the Wool Text and art by Anupam Arunachalam   This might not be easy to appreciate in a world where most industrial paint is made in labs using chemicals, but in the old world, colour used to come from things. Specifically, natural things. In ancient […]

  Vol 1 Issue 4 | January-March 2022 Finding Mumtaz Story by Anushka Ravishankar | Art by Mainak Mitra   Charbagh: the Magic of Four The Charbagh, the garden that begins at the gate and ends at the base of the mausoleum, is one of the most striking aspects of the Taj Mahal. It is […]

Vol 1 Issue 3 | October-December 2021 Hum Dekhenge Story by Francesca Cotta | Art by Kruttika Susarla   Hum Dekhenge In 2013, I left my home in Goa to attend college in Pune. As with most of the first-year students, my parents found me a hostel in the vicinity of my new campus. The […]

Vol 1 Issue 3 | October-December 2021 Bond… Jamal Bond Story and art by Suhail Naqshbandi This story in Comixense was inspired by a real-life incident from May 2020, where a pigeon was ‘captured’ by villagers near the border between the Indian- and Pakistani-controlled regions of Kashmir. It was held suspect as it had a […]

Vol 1 Issue 3 | October-December 2021 On The House Story by Varud Gupta | Art by Harsho Mohan Chattoraj   On The House is not just a story for these pages. It exists as a cautionary tale of the voices around us and the inequality in India that divides us. So, if you have […]

Vol 1 Issue 3 | October-December 2021 The Fourth of the Three Story by Indrajit Hazra | Art by Mad Paule   Vasco da Gama The first European to reach India via the Cape of Good Hope was the Portuguese sea captain, Vasco da Gama (c. 1460 – 1524). Much of the real man – […]