Legal Personhood for the Great Barrier Reef

The Great Barrier Reef could soon be granted legal personhood! What do you think it’s first move will be?

Cartoon for DW Global Ideas’ social media page. Read more on the issue here.

Big Oil War Profits

Even as Ukraine reels from one human crisis after another, and Europe reels from shortage of power supply, Big Oil companies have earned record-shattering war profits. Cartoon from my column with The Hindu Sunday Magazine. 

World Pangolin Day 2023

What would it look like if the world’s most trafficked mammal had a #ValentinesDay date night?

Cartoon from my column with RoundGlass Sustain.

Happy #WorldPangolinDay to you and your valentine!
 

World Hippo Day

If I asked you to name the two species of hippopotami in the world, would you be able to, without Googling? Now you can! Here!

Get Hippo merchandise on my Redbubble webstore here, shipped worldwide. 

Futala Lake in Nagpur

Futala Lake, among my hometown Nagpur's most famous landmarks, was once the wintering ground for migratory waterbirds and waders. Today it is marked by a concrete embankment, a musical fountain, and deforestation along its peripheries. Activists and environmentalists from the city have been campaigning against this transformation. 

Comic from my column with The Hindu Sunday Magazine.

Irulas win the Padmashri

Vadivel Gopal and Masi Sadaiyan, members of the snake-catching Irula community, were among the 106 Padma awardees on this Republic Day (26th January). The duo has not only led snake-catching operations in India but also advised snake expeditions abroad!

Despite playing a critical role in saving thousands of lives each year from snakebites, Irulas who have been the backbone of the antivenom supply in India, have faced caste-based injustices over decades.

The comic appears in my column with The Hindu Sunday Magazine. A couple of years back, I wrote and illustrated a short comic book on snakebite awareness called ‘Making Friends with Snakes’ in collaboration with the Madras Crocodile Bank Trust and renowned herpetologist Mr. Romulus Whitaker, which is available via Pratham Books and Storyweaver. The book was a recipient of the Green Literature Festival Award, 2021.