A selected list of my essays and articles. Some of them have appeared in magazines, newspapers and academic collections. Click on the titles to read on Scribd.

• Substance and Shadow: The tenuous relationship between cartooning and fine art. Article for bluejackal.net. 2019.
• Graphic novels in India – a critical view of artistic styles. Article for Sahapedia, an online encyclopaedia on Indian arts. 2016.
• Article on manga author Yukichi Yamamatsu and his manga Stupid Guy Goes to India. 2012.
• Making comics in India under global capitalism- a testimony. Article for Chimurenga, a Cape Town based pan-African magazine. 2012
• A review of Bhimayana, a graphic biography of Dr. B.R.Ambedkar. 2011.
• A brief survey of Japanese comics. 2010. Written for a newspaper column but not published.
• An Art without a tradition: A survey of Indian comics. First published in Marg magazine, Vol.61, No.2, Dec. 2009. 
• How to build a comics culture in India. 2009. An edited version published as Indian Comics and the Idea of Success, in the collection Shrapnel Minima, Writings from Humanities Underground, Seagull Books. 2014. 
• Yaoi: A revolution in the comic form. Notes on the manga sub-genre ‘yaoi’ or ‘Boys Love’. 2009.
• THE ACTIONIST- Collected Blog Writings (2004-2009). Blog writing collected into book form. 2009.
• Cut and Paste. Poems and collages. 2009. A collection of student work.
  
• Article on Mohiner Ghoraguli, Bengali rock music group. Published in Rave music magazine, 2006.
  
  

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 THE ACTIONIST: Collected Blog Writings (2004-09)

First published 2009.

A rambling blog written as a youth, just out of film school. Collected here in book form. The themes are wide-ranging. These include comics, literature, cinema, visual art, pornography, the internet, music, religion, magic, esoteric ideas and current affairs.