Pandemic a huge lesson for govts to redefine idea of development(IANS Interview)
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New Delhi, June 5 : From dentistry to animation to promoting environmental issues through illustrations and cartoons, the world has come full circle for Rohan Chakravarty, whose new book Green Humour for a Greying Planet (Penguin) has just been published and who fervently hopes the pandemic will come as a huge lesson for governments worldwide to redefine their concepts of development. Although as a befuddled teenager I strayed into dentistry as my qualification, I realized that drawing cartoons on wildlife was my calling after an encounter with a tigress on a visit to Nagzira Tiger Reserve (in Maharashtra). After a three year stint in the animation industry (2011-2014) which I quite enjoyed, I quit my day job to devote my time entirely towards my
Santanu Hazarika and his world of cyborg queens and laser kings
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Artist Santanu Hazarika tells us how comic books and metal music are the two constants in his evolving style
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Artist Santanu Hazarika tells us how comic books and metal music are the two constants in his evolving style
In Santanu Hazarika’s portrait of close friend, actor Shruti Haasan, she is half-human, half-robot, and wears a demure gaze, strokes of a yellow sun rising like wings from her back. A haloed Mother Mary if she were a cyborg.
Cool blue metallic portraits might be the Guwahati-native artist’s latest obsession, but the core idea still reflects his trademark affinity towards creating comic book characters out of people.
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Stream Kissies, Splundr & KPG’s new 3-way split (screamo, mathcore, noise & more from NJ)
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KPG have come together for an all-New Jersey three-way split. It s getting a cassette release on Quiet Year Records (which also helped release the For Your Health/Shin Guard split and music by ahomari., Listless, Slutever, Baby Grill, and more), and we re premiering a stream of the full split in this post. We were enthralled and stoked to share the vision of the direction we are going in going forward, much more of a noise influence with melodic parts and slammy parts, Kissies tell us. This is a taste of what our first LP we are writing will sound more like and we are very excited to keep working. KPG and Splundr are very good friends of ours so we are ready to bring this release into the world. You can definitely hear all of that noise, sceamo, melody, slam coming through in Kissies two contributions, Hey Boys and Tuesday, which are both very stron