Graphic Novelist: Vishwajyoti Ghosh

Images of people talking to each other in hushed tones about politics and notices in restaurants stating not to talk about politics at all, are just a couple of many such visuals that Vishwajyoti Ghosh observed while growing up in Delhi. And they have managed to firmly stay in his head. He grew up and so did the curiosity to probe into these visuals and look deep inside them. This led to the birth of Delhi Calm, Ghosh’s ironically titled complex political graphic novel which brings alive one of the darkest hours in the modern history of independent India, the Emergency Period which started on June 25, 1975 and ended in 1977. “In 1996, I was assisting a friend on his college video project on the Emergency. That’s when I realized the visual and thematic possibilities of the subject, much as I realized how little I knew about it. That set me going,” says Ghosh. Read the whole story here