Join us for a conversation with Orijit Sen and Shalmali Gutta about Orijit’s latest release Food & Farming - A Journey Through India in Comics
The details of the event are as follows:
DATE: 30 NOVEMBER, SATURDAY
TIME: 5:30 PM
About the book
Coming at a critical time, the book seeks answers to tough questions about India’s food security and agriculture. From the history of the Public Distribution System to the impact of the Green Revolution on groundwater, this graphic novel gives readers a comprehensive overview of India’s food system. Since the early 1990s, the Indian state has sought to privatise agriculture and withdraw from its duty to solve the country’s hunger crisis. Given the intensification of this process in recent years, this comic is essential reading for any Indian today.
About the speakers
Orijit Sen (born 1963) is a graphic artist, muralist and designer. Along with designer and curator Gurpreet Sidhu, he is the founder of People Tree Studio, an art and design space for collaborative projects. Deeply involved with the development of comics and graphic novels in India. His pioneering work River of Stories first published in 1994, is thought to be India's first graphic novel. He is also co-founder of the Pao Collective of graphic artists, and a key person behind the award winning Pao: The Anthology of Comics. Orijit has also served as Mario Miranda Chair Visiting Professor at Goa University, where he initiated an experimental arts research project entitled "Mapping Mapusa Market Project" involving students, educationists and artists.
Shalmali Guttal is a senior analyst with Focus on the Global South (Focus), a regional activist policy research organisation. She is a popular educator, researcher and writer on a range of social, economic and environmental justice issues. She is a member of the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems and the Working Group in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas (UNDROP). She lives in Goa.