While it is not possible to generalise an anthology, what can a non-native take away from this collection? Sometimes, the idea of a city is more important than the city itself - the architecture, the streets and so on. You take these experiences and let your imagination assemble them together. We experience the city in this fragmented form, similar to how the panels in a chitrakatha combine to form a page. I think it very much was this intangible city in fragments that I thought was appropriate. The idea is that such a project also provokes a response, and opens the way to new and creative interpretations of what people make of their city.įlipping through the stories, did you feel it represented the city: past, present and the future, or was it some kind of an intangible city beyond definition? At the outset, I wanted this to be Version 1.0, so to speak, keeping with Bengaluru's IT pulse. We wanted to move from information to imagination. So, we didn't want to replicate that - making a sort of comic out of the Wikipedia entry on Bangalore wasn't really what interested us. Mileage (Jai Undurti, Rupesh Arvindakshan) No More Coffee (Ramya Ramakrishnan)Ī graphic novel anthology on a city could have diverse interpretations, especially one like Bengaluru, with its multiple ecosystems.
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