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Chitra Ganesh was born and raised in New York City, and currently lives in Brooklyn.These images are from Amnesia's Travels, a comic book that creates an alternate mythology to explore how memories and their repression shape personal and social crises. The project is inspired by Hindu mythology, present day imperialism and queer politics, and erased moments in South Asian history. I suppose the lack of reconciliation between what is drawn and what is written makes it funny in a bizzare way.
Strange indeed :) But she definitely has the 'Amar Chitra Katha' style of illustration down pat. I grew up on a staple of this :) my family's contribution to bringing me up so I may know all my mythological and cultural stories well :)
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ReplyDeleteAmar Chitra katha for me is nostalgia central because it was our staple during summer vacations spent in kerala at my grandparents' home. My older cousins and I would be so bored out of our minds after hanging out at various fields/farms/chilling with livestock/getting yelled at by grandma for doing so etc ,so the evening would culminate into long hot showers, 10 mandatory minutes at the puja room where my g.mum would force us to sing bhajans and then we would be banished to various corners to carry on 'quiet' activities before TV time.
I can still recall the damp smell of the pages . I'll have to admit I was more of a Tinkle girl myself.