Salvador Dalí-Marx Brothers' film, Giraffes on Horseback Salad, turned into a graphic novel
Fp Staff • 6 years agoSalvador Dalí's Giraffes on Horseback Salad revolved around Jimmy (played by Harpo) who gets inexplicably attracted to a mysterious surrealist woman
Sarnath Banerjee on subverting 'truth-manufacturing industries' with fiction, and the therapeutic power of imagination
Joanna Lobo • 6 years agoIn an interview with Firstpost, Sarnath Banerjee speaks of today's post-truth world, his love for history, and how bedtime stories with his son sparked the idea for his next book.
An abridged retelling of the Māṇḍūkya Upaniṣad, or The Upanishad of the Frog
Satwick Gade • 6 years agoThe Māṇḍūkya Upaniṣad has deeply influenced both the Buddhist Śūnyavāda and Advaita Vedānta. A proper etymology of Māṇḍūkya is widely debated, but literally, it translates to 'The Upanishad of the Frog'
Marvel's Infinity Wars #4 review: A whole new universe of possibilities and missed opportunities
Vinay Viswanath • 6 years agoAt the end of Infinity Wars #3, Gamora had won. The Infinity Gems allowed her to wield infinite cosmic power which she then used to halve the number of souls in the universe. It’s within this new and improved Soul World that issue #4 kicks off.
Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay's Pather Panchali and its protagonist Apu get a graphic update
Shantanu Guha Ray • 8 years agoAlmost nine decades after Bibhuti Bhushan Bandyopadhyay penned the iconic novel Pather Pachali — about the journey of Apu — the novelist's grandson, Trinankur Banerjee, is scripting a continuation of the story set in modern times.
Kashmiri writer Malik Sajad's graphic novel 'Munnu' retells horrors of Kashmir insurgency
• 8 years agoThrough sombre black and white drawings, graphic novelist Malik Sajad tells the brutal story of his native Kashmir in the 1990s, as an armed insurgency against Indian rule reached its bloody peak.
Sarnath Banerjee's The Poona Circle hones in on a contentious aspect of school education: Textbooks
Rosalyn Dmello • 8 years agoAt the ongoing Pune Biennale, Sarnath Banerjee's work The Poona Circle encourages young minds not to believe everything that is printed in ink, and to question textual authority
'Baahubali' goes beyond the big screen: SS Rajamouli's epic to be launched as graphic novel series
Fp Archives • 9 years agoThe graphic novel will be based on the blockbuster film and will unravel stories of the characters which could not be shown in Bahubali: The Beginning.
Excerpt from graphic novel Empire of Blood: What if the sun had not set on the British Empire?
Fp Staff • 10 years agoHere's an excerpt from new graphic novel Empire of Blood.
Graphic book reimagines Jobs' tryst with Zen
Fp Archives • 13 years agoThe Zen of Steve Jobs covers the time spent by Steve Jobs with a Soto Zen Buddhist priest which had huge bearing on design of Apple products.