Sunday, August 17, 2014

While reading a book on gender and identity in Africa and while also illustrating a book cover for a book on a young man's Sexlessness at 35, i came upon this interesting article on sex(lessness) in the life of the disabled, from a disabled woman.
Interesting i think
http://www.tarshi.net/blog/i-column-sexless-in-the-city/

And a sweet little find in connection -


And then you realize how little this face matters, how little the shape of our bodies matter, how little our hotness, this obsession with being attractive matters when inner strength and beauty is what you need to survive the joys and sorrows of the world.


Wednesday, August 13, 2014

This Side That Side, another book contribution

A contribution of an illustrated comic from 2013.
Please do get your hands on the book (edited by mentor extraordinaire Vishwajyoti Ghosh).
It's a keeper of an anthology, a potpourri of evocative stories on the partition of India resonating with many significant voices. Will post pages from my piece later, as of now the official teaser and bigger picture:






Tuesday, August 5, 2014

They love,
what they cannot value
what is not them
what they cannot understand
for as much as they may laugh at it
or violate it,
it is lovable like a child,
and the moment you become understood,
you are one of them,
hated,
and
a threat.