Partha Bhattacharjee
Biographic Data
| ID | 3799345 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Partha Bhattacharjee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Partha |
| FAMILY NAME | Bhattacharjee |
| SIGNATURE | BHATTACHARJEE P |
| AFFILIATIONS | SRM University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1581-0076 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Drawing (in) the margins
This article undertakes a close reading and comprehensive study of the comics ‘Without Permit, Entry Prohibited’, published as part of the anthology First Hand Volume 2 (2018), to demonstrate how this comics decolonise both various facets of conventional comics and the legacy media portrayal of the indigenous Ang community (otherwise colloquially known among the outsiders as the Jarawa people). It creates a decolonial and syncretic narrative on t…
Traversing through transmedia
This article seeks to investigate how Ram Devineni and his team’s productions – Priya’s Shakti (2014), Priya’s Mirror (2016), and Priya and the Lost Girls (2019) – break the coveted layers of frames and panels of comics and go beyond them to sensitise the readers on the nuances of gender-based violence in India with the incorporation of augmented reality. Within the fields of comics studies and gender studies, the article also explores how augmen…
Fractured identities and wounded memories in Indian comics on partition
Within the liaison of decoloniality studies and comics studies, this paper investigates how the decolonial visual style in the comics anthology This Side That Side (Ghosh 2013) has been used to locate the traumatised past and violation of human rights due to the ‘b/ordering’ practices of partition of India . ‘The Taboo’ by Malini Gupta and Dyuti Mittal, ‘An Afterlife’ by Sanjoy Chakraborty, and ‘Making Faces’ by Orijit Sen cultivate the stories o…
Narrating India through comics, crisis, and gendered subjectivities
By merging visual symbolism, evocative imagery and fragmented or non-linear structures, comics and graphic novels in India expand beyond traditional textual storytelling, and prompt readers to inte
Transcending the Trouble, Trauma, and Pain of Failed Marriage and Closeted Sexuality in Indian Web Series Made in Heaven
Framing the feminine fury
Within the intersection of decolonial studies and comic studies, this paper examines how decolonial visual styles have been employed in two comics narratives, ‘Someday’ by Samidha Gunjal and ‘Ever After’ by Priyanka Kumar. The specific formal styles have been used to locate the traumatised reality and monotonous life due to the gendering practices prevalent in India. The comics cultivate the everyday stories of the Indian middle-class women, both…
Interview with Richard McGuire
In this interview, Richard McGuire talks about his creative process as a cartoonist and illustrator. With a special emphasis on his books Here and Sequential Drawings, McGuire elaborates on his experiments with the notions of ‘space’ and ‘time’ through graphic narratives
Interview with Somesh Kumar
In this interview, Haleema Badar and Partha Bhattacharjee discussed with Somesh Kumar on his significant contributions as an illustrator and graphic designer. Recently, he published an online graphic novel called ‘Little by Little,’ where he shares stories from his family and childhood. Somesh Kumar’s graphic novel ‘Little by Little’ is memoir that tells him growing up in different parts of the Indian state of Bihar and his journey of becoming an…
Conversation with Ayesha Tariq
In this interview, Barnana Baidya and Partha Bhattacharjee will discuss with Ayesha Tariq on her significant contributions as an illustrator and graphic designer. Her graphic narrative, Sarah: The Suppressed Anger of the Pakistani Obedient Daughter (2015) is widely acknowledged for showcasing the gender-based violence inside the house, which remains invisible and silent. This interview was conducted via email. The questions were e-mailed to Ayesh…
Interview with Karin Hauser
In this interview, Partha Bhattacharjee, Rounak Gupta, and Priyanka Tripathi will interview Karin Hauser. Karin is a freelance illustrator and graphic designer who illustrated her graphic narrative, Über das Treiben von Knospen
Interview with Ikroop Sandhu
In this interview, Haleema Badar and Partha Bhattacharjee engage in a conversation with Ikroop Sandhu and explore her contributions as an illustrator and visual storyteller. She has contributed to the most prestigious anthologies Pao Collective, This Side, That Side. Her graphic novel on Bhagat Singh, titled Inquilab Zindabad was published in April 2022
‘My methodology is friendship; my lens is feminist’
In this interview, Partha Bhattacharjee and Priyanka Tripathi discuss with Dr. Nicola Streeten about the recent trends in UK Comics and her contributions to the genre of comics. As a co-founder of LDComics (est Laydeez Do Comics 2009, Streeten has authored Billy, You and Me: A memoir of grief and recovery (2011, Myriad Editions) and co-authored The Inking Woman: the history of British female cartoonists (2018, Myriad Editions) with Cath Tate. Her…
‘The problem of gender violence in India… was not a legal problem, but a cultural problem’
Presented below is a conversation between Ram Devineni and Comics-cum-Gender Studies scholars from India. Leveraging upon these two dimensions, the scholars involved in this interview problematise gender violence in the context of India and explore the possibilities of comics as a genre to sensitise society towards violence against women. In this conversation, Priyanka Tripathi and Bidisha Pal, both scholars of gender studies, lay the basic premi…
Integrating medical education with graphic narration
In this interview, Partha Bhattacharjee and Priyanka Tripathi discuss and analyse Dr. Priyanga Singh’s contributions as a medical illustrator. In her illustrations, Dr. Singh integrates her knowledge of medicine and experience as a medical professional through the visual art of storytelling. Graphic narration, for her, acts as a productive trope of devising a method of medical education
Performance beyond the panel
Positioned at the intersection of comics studies and gender studies, this article examines the process in which the ‘performance’ of Ram Devineni’s comic Priya and the Lost Girls (2019), with a honing narrative intertwined with Augmented Reality, sensitizes its readers towards the issue of sex/human trafficking in India. Throughout the enigmatic journey, Priya, the superheroine in the narrative comes to rescue several women who have fallen into t…
‘My drawing enables my catharsis…’
In this interview, Partha Bhattacharjee and Priyanka Tripathi engage in a conversation with Sarah Lightman. They discuss her strategies in creating comics with particular reference to her recent graphic narrative The Book of Sarah. In the concluding section, they unveil comics which she has recently sketched and posted on social media (Facebook, Instagram) after her father’s demise
Discovering the self
In this conversation, Partha Bhattacharjee and Priyanka Tripathi will explore Dyuti Mittal’s (New Delhi, India) use of art, visual strategies, and avant-garde techniques she employs in her comics and graphic narratives. Through unusual patterns and unorthodox contents, Dyuti traverses through diverse visual semantics and experiments with the ink pen and colours. Being a contemporary avant-garde comics artist and writer, Mittal is renowned for her…
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‘My drawing enables my catharsis…’
In this interview, Partha Bhattacharjee and Priyanka Tripathi engage in a conversation with Sarah Lightman. They discuss her strategies in creating comics with particular reference to her recent graphic narrative The Book of Sarah. In the concluding section, they unveil comics which she has recently sketched and posted on social media (Facebook, Instagram) after her father’s demise
Discovering the self
In this conversation, Partha Bhattacharjee and Priyanka Tripathi will explore Dyuti Mittal’s (New Delhi, India) use of art, visual strategies, and avant-garde techniques she employs in her comics and graphic narratives. Through unusual patterns and unorthodox contents, Dyuti traverses through diverse visual semantics and experiments with the ink pen and colours. Being a contemporary avant-garde comics artist and writer, Mittal is renowned for her…
‘My methodology is friendship; my lens is feminist’
In this interview, Partha Bhattacharjee and Priyanka Tripathi discuss with Dr. Nicola Streeten about the recent trends in UK Comics and her contributions to the genre of comics. As a co-founder of LDComics (est Laydeez Do Comics 2009, Streeten has authored Billy, You and Me: A memoir of grief and recovery (2011, Myriad Editions) and co-authored The Inking Woman: the history of British female cartoonists (2018, Myriad Editions) with Cath Tate. Her…
‘The problem of gender violence in India… was not a legal problem, but a cultural problem’
Presented below is a conversation between Ram Devineni and Comics-cum-Gender Studies scholars from India. Leveraging upon these two dimensions, the scholars involved in this interview problematise gender violence in the context of India and explore the possibilities of comics as a genre to sensitise society towards violence against women. In this conversation, Priyanka Tripathi and Bidisha Pal, both scholars of gender studies, lay the basic premi…
Integrating medical education with graphic narration
In this interview, Partha Bhattacharjee and Priyanka Tripathi discuss and analyse Dr. Priyanga Singh’s contributions as a medical illustrator. In her illustrations, Dr. Singh integrates her knowledge of medicine and experience as a medical professional through the visual art of storytelling. Graphic narration, for her, acts as a productive trope of devising a method of medical education
Performance beyond the panel
Positioned at the intersection of comics studies and gender studies, this article examines the process in which the ‘performance’ of Ram Devineni’s comic Priya and the Lost Girls (2019), with a honing narrative intertwined with Augmented Reality, sensitizes its readers towards the issue of sex/human trafficking in India. Throughout the enigmatic journey, Priya, the superheroine in the narrative comes to rescue several women who have fallen into t…
Interview with Ikroop Sandhu
In this interview, Haleema Badar and Partha Bhattacharjee engage in a conversation with Ikroop Sandhu and explore her contributions as an illustrator and visual storyteller. She has contributed to the most prestigious anthologies Pao Collective, This Side, That Side. Her graphic novel on Bhagat Singh, titled Inquilab Zindabad was published in April 2022
Interview with Karin Hauser
In this interview, Partha Bhattacharjee, Rounak Gupta, and Priyanka Tripathi will interview Karin Hauser. Karin is a freelance illustrator and graphic designer who illustrated her graphic narrative, Über das Treiben von Knospen
Framing the feminine fury
Within the intersection of decolonial studies and comic studies, this paper examines how decolonial visual styles have been employed in two comics narratives, ‘Someday’ by Samidha Gunjal and ‘Ever After’ by Priyanka Kumar. The specific formal styles have been used to locate the traumatised reality and monotonous life due to the gendering practices prevalent in India. The comics cultivate the everyday stories of the Indian middle-class women, both…
Interview with Richard McGuire
In this interview, Richard McGuire talks about his creative process as a cartoonist and illustrator. With a special emphasis on his books Here and Sequential Drawings, McGuire elaborates on his experiments with the notions of ‘space’ and ‘time’ through graphic narratives
Interview with Somesh Kumar
In this interview, Haleema Badar and Partha Bhattacharjee discussed with Somesh Kumar on his significant contributions as an illustrator and graphic designer. Recently, he published an online graphic novel called ‘Little by Little,’ where he shares stories from his family and childhood. Somesh Kumar’s graphic novel ‘Little by Little’ is memoir that tells him growing up in different parts of the Indian state of Bihar and his journey of becoming an…
Conversation with Ayesha Tariq
In this interview, Barnana Baidya and Partha Bhattacharjee will discuss with Ayesha Tariq on her significant contributions as an illustrator and graphic designer. Her graphic narrative, Sarah: The Suppressed Anger of the Pakistani Obedient Daughter (2015) is widely acknowledged for showcasing the gender-based violence inside the house, which remains invisible and silent. This interview was conducted via email. The questions were e-mailed to Ayesh…
Drawing (in) the margins
This article undertakes a close reading and comprehensive study of the comics ‘Without Permit, Entry Prohibited’, published as part of the anthology First Hand Volume 2 (2018), to demonstrate how this comics decolonise both various facets of conventional comics and the legacy media portrayal of the indigenous Ang community (otherwise colloquially known among the outsiders as the Jarawa people). It creates a decolonial and syncretic narrative on t…
Traversing through transmedia
This article seeks to investigate how Ram Devineni and his team’s productions – Priya’s Shakti (2014), Priya’s Mirror (2016), and Priya and the Lost Girls (2019) – break the coveted layers of frames and panels of comics and go beyond them to sensitise the readers on the nuances of gender-based violence in India with the incorporation of augmented reality. Within the fields of comics studies and gender studies, the article also explores how augmen…
Fractured identities and wounded memories in Indian comics on partition
Within the liaison of decoloniality studies and comics studies, this paper investigates how the decolonial visual style in the comics anthology This Side That Side (Ghosh 2013) has been used to locate the traumatised past and violation of human rights due to the ‘b/ordering’ practices of partition of India . ‘The Taboo’ by Malini Gupta and Dyuti Mittal, ‘An Afterlife’ by Sanjoy Chakraborty, and ‘Making Faces’ by Orijit Sen cultivate the stories o…
Narrating India through comics, crisis, and gendered subjectivities
By merging visual symbolism, evocative imagery and fragmented or non-linear structures, comics and graphic novels in India expand beyond traditional textual storytelling, and prompt readers to inte
Transcending the Trouble, Trauma, and Pain of Failed Marriage and Closeted Sexuality in Indian Web Series Made in Heaven
Comics and Graphic Narratives (12 works) · Art (11 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Comics (9 works) · Literature (9 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Media, Gender, and Advertising (6 works) · Communication (5 works) · Conversation (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works)