![]() ![]() These comic fragments were submerged in my deeper memory banks, and were haunting in ways I couldn’t understand until I saw them again with adult eyes. I began to draw upon these images because I feel how potent a collectively shared set of visual images can be when they are reconsidered. Growing up in New York City, having visited India frequently, I was an avid Amar Chitra Katha reader. ![]() Like Grimm’s fairy tales, Greek myths, vampire stories, Bible stories for children, and popular folklore, Amar Chitra Katha comics provide prescriptive models of citizenship, nationalism, religious expression, public behavior, and sexuality. The series, which is distributed around the world, offers religious and mythological narratives based on South Asian history and religions to a popular audience. The comic is part of a larger body of work inspired by images from the Amar Chitra Kathas, a comic book series for children created and published in India. ![]() S he the Question was originally published as a 24-page comic book that was commissioned in 2012 as part of a large solo exhibition of the same name at the Gothenburg Kunsthalle in Sweden. ![]()
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