Vol 5 No 2 | Jul-Sep 2025 The First Language War Story by CG Salamander | Art by Kruttika Susarla   The Struggle Continues The Anti-Hindi Agitation in Tamil Nadu was a series of protests by people in Tamil Nadu who didn’t want to learn or use the Hindi language. It started in the 1930s […]

Vol 5 No 2 | Jul-Sep 2025 The Poet Who Became a Tree Story and art by Orijit Sen   This piece by Orijit Sen about Kabir, his poetry and his philosophy is an extract from a longer piece titled “Hair Burns Like Grass” that first appeared in the Pao Anthology of comics, published by […]

Vol 5 No 2 | Jul-Sep 2025 I Have Seen It Story by Cordelia Francis | Art by Lokesh Khodke   About the book Garcia de Orta’s ‘Colóquios dos Simples e Drogas da India’ (1563) was a ground-breaking treatise on Indian medicinal plants and spices, written in Portuguese and structured as a dialogue between Orta […]

Vol 5 No 2 | Jul-Sep 2025 A Dad Joke a Day Story by Mohd Salman | Art by Haasini Casukhela   In this entertaining piece, Mohd Salman and Haasini Casukhela, punsters themselves, imagine a salon where other pun-dits from across the ages and around the world gather, and indulge their particular fascination. https://www.npr.org/2011/05/15/136253845/not-jest-for-pun-a-surprising-history-of-wordplay https://www.themarginalian.org/2011/04/14/a-brief-history-of-the-pun/

Vol 5 No 2 | Jul-Sep 2025 Biryani Khaane Jayinge Story and art by Hallubol (Rahil Mohsin and Amaya Alankrita)   Hallubol—A Dakhni initiative Hallubol is a multimedia initiative Alankrita and I started in early 2023. It is our hope to create narratives deeply rooted in the lives of Dakhni speakers, capturing their everyday experiences, […]