Who was this roommate? Esther Elias, who joined The Hindu's Chennai Bureau soon after.Ī few months after reading Rather Lovely Thing, Esther pitched her Editor a story on Manta Ray for the paper's Metroplus supplement, but we actually ended up gracing The Hindu Sunday Magazine! Her roommate loved one of the stories in it so much that she printed it out and put it up on her pin-up board. Mixtape 1 found it's way into the hands of Savitha, a twenty-year-old student at the Asian College of Journalism, who then shared it with her roommate. Before the end of 2011 we would be married, and Tina also came aboard Manta Ray, and spearheaded the creation and release of our Mixtape 1 digital experiment. We lost touch after that journey, but a year later, we met again at the Hush signing event at Goobes, Bangalore. We were two strangers on either end of a side-berth, who shared a common passion for stories, storytelling and writing, and discovered that we also shared the same birth date, albeit 4 years apart. Tina and I met on a Cochin-bound train in April 2010 (I was going for Dileep's wedding). ![]() Two years later, Prabha was back in Bangalore, she did this poster and would go on to become an amazing illustrator & storyteller, and Manta Ray's Art Director. (The unexpected shutdown of said start-up left me unemployed for 9 months and led to Manta Ray). I first met Prabha when our paths crossed briefly in 2008 at a mobile-storytelling start-up where I was working. Hush featured two tribute posters, from Prabha Mallya and Manoj A. It would take another 18 months for my first comic script and Rajiv Eipe's black & white illustrations to come together in Hush. The longer version goes something like this:īefore Kokaachi, there was Manta Ray, which Dileep & I started in August 2009. ![]() The short version: There are no coincidences. In many ways, it was Esther who sent us down a path that has brought us to where we are today, and looking back, it feels strange to see how the dots connect. and we wanted to glance back one last time, before we surge ahead into the unknown.Ī few days ago, Tina and I were at our friend Esther's wedding reception and that got me thinking about our journey in comics from 2009 to where we are now. After a long break, we're back to our first love, comics.
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