Sandhya Swaminathan has created an immense following on social media with her pencil portraits. This Ooty girl is moving ahead successfully on a career path she charted for herself. The magic she creates on paper is purely out of her love for art, not to mention, it takes a lot hard work and concentration to do […]

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, […]