Graphic Novelist: Amruta Patil

“ A young, deeply introverted, asocial and queer woman” is how Amruta Patil has often summed up the protagonist of her debut graphic novel Kari. When Kari released in 2008, it took the country by storm and unsurprisingly, got a lot of global attention and has been released in various international languages since. Despite the unusual protagonist, the intense storyline interspersed with dark humour, incidental queerness and two attempts of suicide, for Patil, Kari was all about spontaneity and youthful lack of big-picture vision. See more  at Kyoorius.