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Excerpted with permission from ‘Drawing Disaster: A Lost Sketchbook’ by Argha Manna and Debkumar Mitra, Famine Tales: A Graphic Anthology, edited by Ayesha Mukherjee, Abhijit Gupta, Sujit Kumar Mondal, and Shrutakirti Dutta, Jadavpur University Press.
