A new web comic array is decoding a complexities of cultivation and food confidence in India
The array is led by dual immature characters, Soni and Lucky
How does a food on your list strech you? Who grows a rice we had for lunch? Is plantation to list a existence for cultivators? These are questions that Soni and Lucky — dual immature Indians travelling opposite a nation — are chasing in #IndiaGraphicSeries on Agriculture and Food Security, a new web comic combined by comic book artistes and illustrators Orijit Sen, Vidyun Sabhaney and Harsho Mohan Chattoraj, in partnership with Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung – South Asia. The series, instituted by a NGO Focus on The Global South, aims to illustrate a complexity of rural practices, farmers’ issues and food confidence in a country.
A row from a second procedure on craving and under-nutrition. Pics Courtesy/FOCUSWEB.ORG
The array is divided into 15 weekly two-part modules. It follows on a heels of a year-long farmers’ criticism that kicked off opposite 3 quarrelsome plantation laws by a Centre, that were eventually repealed. The storied criticism was one of a sparks behind a web comic, Sen tells us. “People generally consider that farmers’ issues are farmers’ issues; they don’t realize that we’re all partial of a routine and as consumers, we’re obliged for creation a scold choices,” he reasons, adding, “But since of a efforts of farmers during a protests, there’s been a change in a opinion of a civic consumer. It’s a good time to build on that and settle a tie between a rancher and consumer, who go to a same side.”
Orijit Sen, Vidyun Sabhaney and Harsho Mohan Chattoraj
The comic starts with an introduction to Right to Food, seen from a eyes of a flood-hit cultivator and an anganwadi workman in Assam, where a Maharashtra MLAs were seen camping amid a domestic slugfest only days ago. Peppered with essential statistics, a array afterwards leads readers into a intricacies of craving and under-nutrition. Sabhaney, who has documented a farmer’s protest, shares that they’ve attempted to change contribution with an enchanting narrative. “The thought is to familiarize people with how policies on food and cultivation are organised,” shares Sabhaney, who works on a scripting process.
In a entrance days, a array will excavate into a story of Minimum Support Price (MSP), a Public Distribution System (PDS), a mid-day dish scheme, a politics of food, and probable resolutions. Chattoraj, who works on a illustrations, asserts the plan will rivet readers who are away from a existence of how food travels to their table. “Those who live in cities, a eyesight is blocked; it’s by art like this that we can get an thought of a belligerent reality.”
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