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.
Reading
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Readers’ comments: Our culture and Hinduism are more important than the Indian economy
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‘Mrs.’ trailer: Sanya Malhotra plays a put-upon housewife
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Before the 1971 war, India and Pakistan were skirmishing on another front: Brazil
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Roopa Pai on how ‘chow chow’ or Bangalore brinjals became a staple on the city’s plate
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The shared struggles of India, Indonesia are a chance to push for human rights at home and abroad
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Is not having children selfish, a ‘moral failing’? Anti-natalists explain why it’s an ethical choice
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Ramachandra Guha: 75 years later, Ambedkar’s warnings about potential pitfalls have come true
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Why is India’s middle class so silent about the slowing economy?
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‘Send millions of Indian peasants to Brazil to eradicate poverty and starvation’
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Why India’s increasing elderly population faces a dire future