Posts Tagged With: Graphic novel

Free Speech

I want to recommend a book today. It’s titled “Delhi Calm” and I’m recommending it not just because it’s well-drawn and has interesting characters, but because its sepia tone illustrations talk about a period of Indian history that we’d do well to not forget. The graphic novel is set mostly in a New Delhi of [...]

Categories: Current affairs | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | 4 Comments

Check in

A little more than a year ago, I hoped for Parismita Singh to have a book launch in Mumbai. Something better happened: I got hold of a copy of the book itself. With “The Hotel at the End of the World“, Singh turns from “comic book artist” to “graphic novelist”. The publishers are putting it [...]

Categories: Art, Literature | Tags: , , | 6 Comments

Comic effect

In 2000, when B Singh and P Singh (related then by phonetics and bodily fluids; now by marriage, I think), took on the charge of editing the St Stephen’s College yearbook, they roped in a third Singh – Parismita – and created, in my opinion, the best yearbook the college has produced in decades. It [...]

Categories: Literature | Tags: , , | 3 Comments

Graphic detail

I’ve been trying to figure out why I read books for a long time. As a kid, I was always sure I wanted to study English ( which is good since I’d never have made the cut-offs for any other subject) and all the number-crunching science students in the family would sniffily say to me, [...]

Categories: Literature, Random | Tags: , , , | 12 Comments

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