Vol 2 No 3 | Oct-Dec 2022 Homebound Story by Nathaniel da Costa | Art by Ishanou Rana The story behind ‘Homebound’ was inspired by multiple incidents around human-made tragedies but mainly from the disaster at Fukushima, Japan. In 2011, there was a nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Ōkuma, […]

  Vol 2 No 3 | Oct-Dec 2022 Mother We will Eat the Satphool! Story and art by Pankaj Saikia This story was inspired by the popular Assamese song “Maa ami Sadiyaloi Jamei” (“Mother we will go to Sadiya”) written by Keshab Mahanta and composed and beautifully sung by the legendary Khagen Mahanta: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVwJkYF57E0 Here’s […]

  Vol 2 No 3 | Oct-Dec 2022 An Event in the Life of Kolynos Thankaraj Story and art by Prakash Moorthy   This comic is a quirky satirical story, centring around a forest guard who only wanted to be a desk clerk, and an extraordinary incident that rounds off his day of retirement. The […]

  Vol 2 No 3 | Oct-Dec 2022 Mynatai Lonkar Story by Sheela Jaywant | Art by Abhijeet Kini   For over 150 years, Bombay was known for her wealth. Her riches passed through her busy port and natural harbour, true, but it was generated largely by several cotton textile mills. The ‘girnis’ as the […]

  Vol 2 No 3 | Oct-Dec 2022 The Discovery of J. Baret Story by Francesca Cotta | Art by Pakhi Sen   The first woman to sail the world Jeanne Baret was the first woman known to have sailed around the world. She came on board the Etoile as the ship’s naturalist Philibert Commerson’s […]

  Vol 2 Issue 2 | July-Sept 2022 Bone Music Story and art by Anupam Arunachalam   Cultural repression in the USSR Because much of our view of the Communist USSR comes from western sources, largely American, there’s a lot of US propaganda that obscures the real picture of Cold War Soviet Russia. But in […]

Vol 2 Issue 2 | July-Sept 2022 Here I Like The Sounds Poem by Salil Chaturvedi | Art by Haasini Casukhela   Poet Salil Chaturvedi says about this poem of his: “The idea is to introduce the sound-gathering paraphernalia of the ear and how the outside world of sounds is interpreted through the ear, and […]

Vol 2 Issue 2 | July-Sept 2022 Jaane Wale Sipahi Story by Falah Faisal | Art by Mad Paule   This story was based on an episode described in the Safdar Hashmi biography ‘Halla Bol!’ by Sudhanva Deshpande.   Safdar: a man of many talents Safdar Hashmi wore several hats – he was an actor, […]

Vol 2 Issue 2 | July-Sept 2022 Lockdown Fugue Story by Nandita Basu | Art by Anjora Noronha   The story of ‘Lockdown Fugue’ is set during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic, when a strict, nationwide lockdown brought a nation of 1.38 billion people to a standstill. In a bid to contain the […]

Vol 2 Issue 2 | July-Sept 2022 New Wave Story by Jay Kshirsagar | Art by Annada Menon   This story is a fantastical imagining that involves cats, music, superstrings and the rejuvenation of our damaged earth. The harmony of spheres A single note contains infinite harmony in the form of overtones. Each note naturally […]