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Akash Dahiya Akshay Agrawal Nandini Bansal Vanshikha Singh Yashasvi Sabharwal Special thanks to Archit Saxena Suhasini Thapliyal
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Chupa Rustam...........................7 Inktober....................................10 Topcheez................................. 18 Kacchi Kali................................26 New Societies in College....... 34 Events........................................37
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Naveed Hussain showing off his amazing skills! Watch the video here 8
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Every year artist from all over the world challenges them self to complete an artwork or sketch in Ink. Mr. Jake Parker initiated the Inktober, as a challenge to improve his inking skills and develop positive drawing habits. Anyone can take the Inktober challenge. There are only 3 rules: 1) Make a drawing in ink (you can do a pencil under-drawing if you want) 2) Post it on your blog (or tumblr, instagram, twitter, facebook, flickr, Pinterest or just pin it on your wall.) 3) Hash-tag it with #inktober 4) Repeat And you will find thousands of entries all over social media sites.
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To start with, tell us sir how did it all start? What was the first comic that generated your interest? A: I grew up on Amar Chitra Katha comics and a lot of hindi comics. It was the fun of reading comics and the thrill of reading visuals that was of interest to me. I wasn’t consciously reading comics to be a graphic novelist but the interest stayed on.
How did you decide upon being a Graphic Novelist?
A. I wasn’t very conscious of being a graphic novelist. However once I was in College of Art, it was an unique experience and I would often find it difficult explaining my friends what really happens there. Around the same time a film called In which Annie gives it a Those Ones was released which beautifully brought out the life in School of Planning and Architecture and that stayed with me. In my 2nd year, I started painting T shirts at People Tree where one could paint anything on a T shirt and that would sell. The owner, Orijit Sen was a a big fan of graphic novels and through him I was exposed to works like Maus etc. By the time I was in my 4th year I wanted to do my first graphic novel 20-22 Tilak Marg about our lives in an art college. But that never happened.
Sir, our readers would like to know about your book ‘Delhi Calm’. What inspired you to choose such an intense topic for your first book?
A. Delhi Calm happened when I was in my MCRC, Jamia assisting my friends on their degree film. I was going through their conversations, research and that inspired me to think visually. I really wanted to get going. But then again, the idea stayed in my head for 8 years, while sub consciously I must have been training myself to tell stories, draw, meanwhile I was doing illustrations, single page comics and preparing myself for the bigger challenge.
What was it like to be a student in ‘College of Arts’? Some tit-bits about your favorite Addas and your favorite pass-times.
A. College was good fun, though I wish there could have been a better curriculum, a more challenging environment and I too could have done much more. We used to hang around in the canteen, go to the railway station to sketch, roam around in the city and do a lot of water colours and of course have a lot of that sugary tea in the tea shop next door. We used to sit a lot in the footpaths of Mandi House, and during the film festival go for a lot of the movies in Connaught Place. But that doesn’t mean we were only into the art scene, far from it, we would waste the best hours singing in the canteen.
How has life treated you after college?
A. Life’s been ok. I went to MCRC Jamia after here to become a filmmaker and once I learnt that I rediscovered my love for graphic design and illustrations. After that I worked for a advertising agency and then I’ve been on my own. Its been good so far.
Sir, tell us more about your work. Why politics is such a dominant part of your work?
A. I like working on contemporary issues, be it social or political. I like engaging and finding out for myself the real issues that makes politics the way it is. It is an attempt of understanding myself rather than telling. Its a journey I guess I am still undertaking.
What style do you prefer to draw in and why?
A. I don’t really have a fixed style and probably still not looking to cultivate one. I let
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the story decide the style as every story is unique and demands its own visual language and thats what inspires me, makes me nervous and challenges me. Its often like the person on the next table in the restaurant is having better food than you, similarly I feel that style is always better than this one. Hence I am always looking to master a style, technique and then move on.
On a lighter note, What are your ragging kisse?
A. It was the 2nd day and we were taken into a painting studio. I was nervous and amused. I think I got away soon after they realised this guy’s no good. So they asked me to leave the room walking like Dev Anand, which I happily did.
An incident or a person that left a mark on your life?
A. Many- Late Swapan Biswas who taught us, brought to us the joy of drawing, the power if line, the art of life drawing. That was so important. Illustrators like Pulak Biswas, Mickey Patel were such colossal inspirations. I still get inspired by their drawings, illustrations.
Any message for the aspiring juniors?
A. The College is what YOU make out of it. Don’t waste your time waiting for education. Go out there, do everything to get yourself educated, learn, challenge and then practice, practice, practice.
is the author of the graphic novel ‘Delhi Calm’ (delhicalm.wordpress.com), a political graphic novel set in the 70’s and a visual book of postcards ‘Times New Roman & Countrymen’. Ghosh is also the creator of the cartoon column ‘Full Toss’ in Hindustan Times Edit Page, every Sunday, besides his earlier columns like Backlog in Little Magazine and Acid Test in Down to Earth. His comics are regularly published in various journals and anthologies, both in India and abroad
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Our college always had many photography and videography lovers, Reading and writing enthusiasts, Performing art lovers,Technical freaks who are damn good at their digital work and of course intellectual fellows who never get tired of having healthy and fruitful debates and discussions, infact we already have many active groups who still practice various such interesting creative activities on their own. Here is one initiative to bring them all together as this protest gave us a great platform and a wonderful opportunity to create our own cultural societies and clubs in which we all will get to learn with each other.
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LITERATURE SOCIETY
Idea of this club was introduced by prominent photographer and artist Dayanita Singh to all the students. She came as footpath faculty in solidarity with students at protest and gave this beautiful idea of starting this club. As we already have many literature lovers, Reading lovers and creative writers in college, this club provides them brilliant opportunity to share their thoughts about various books, articles, novels, authors and much more.
THEATRE CLUB
Their are so many talented Actors, Art Directors, Play writers, Musicians, Dancers, Vocal artists in this college and many more who want Learn new things from the same group! Then why shouldn’t they be united formally and create some amazing piece of art together? They always should have and now they surely will through this circle much more collectively.
DESIGN SOCIETY No points for guessing how important it is in our college to have a fair amount of knowledge regarding creative softwares and technical updates, in fact in a few departments like applied art and visual communication, one can’t really escape use of digital work, no matter how good they are at manual art!
SOCH HARVEST
The main function of this group would be to promote and practice idea of group discussions, healthy debates and open interaction between all the students at one platform no matter which year and which department they are of! To explore and expand our thinking process and be more interactive about the same! - A must for any artist, any day, any time!
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The Black Box The word “Obscura” translates from a Latin word meaning ‘a dark room’. It is this little device which has made possible taking thousands of selfies today. It is fitting that the newest society of the college is named “Obscura” since it is for all those who have a zest for photography. Yes, that is right, our college now has a Photography Society. And we take immense pleasure in introducing Obscura to you. This society is one of the many fruitful outcomes of the protest and It was started with the aim for photography to become an active subject for all the specialisations! Within a period of 1 month, the society has already organised two photo-walks, one basics session, and a photo-trivia session with eminent street photographer Parthiv Goel. If this type of activity continues, we wonder what they’ll do in a full year!
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