Monday, April 19, 2004

A story of India: The Calcutta Telegraph checks in on Sarnath Banerjee, author of "India's first graphic novel":

"In Corridor, a 112-page paperback comic book from Penguin, Banerjee tells 'stories emerging from living in an urban space.' There are characters as varied as Jehangir Rangoonwalla, a know-all bookseller in the heart of Delhiā€™s Connaught Place, Digital Dutta, a software expert who lives in his head 'exploding the midfield alongside Garincha' or 'climbing Mount Everest several times,' and newly-married Shintu looking for aphrodisiac drugs in the bylanes of old Delhi."