1. What led you to come up with this idea for an anthology of graphic non-fiction?  First Hand came as an idea almost two years ago. For me, comics that told urgent, contemporary stories– for example, in the form of journalistic or biographical or even political commentary– were too few. This kind of information most often comes […]

Here are excerpts of a conversation with the phenomenally talented artist, animator and film-maker Gitanjali Rao — whose “time-pass” album on Facebook you will undoubtedly have checked out this summer. It consists of Wish Fulfilment Selfies or ‘Wishfies’, which we quiz her about… as well as her debut graphic non-fiction work, Akhtari, on Begum Akhtar, […]

Indie publisher Yoda Press has just released First Hand, a collection of graphic non-fiction narratives, conceptualised and edited by Vidyun Sabhaney and renowned graphic artist Orijit Sen. Sen in fact worked with independent journalist Neha Dixit on the piece entitled ‘The Girl Not From Madras’, a hard-hitting story that stemmed out of Dixit’s own reportage […]