“You know that strange feeling that life is somewhere else,” says Sarnath Banerjee during a Skype conversation from his home at Berlin, Germany where he now lives with his Pakistani wife. This was in the middle of a conversation about his days and life in Delhi but this in-between sentence is a very integral theme that defines Banerjee’s work, right from his first graphic novel Corridor (2004) to his latest innovative series ‘Enchanted Geography’ for The Hindu newspaper which features Brighu, the now older and darker character from Corridor (described as a restless investigator of the ordinary in the tradition of Fernando Pessoa, Charles Baudelaire and Khalifa Harun al-Rashid), whose memories are constantly travelling back and forth between various cities including his present real life in Berlin. Read the whole story here.
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