Hyderabad: A graphic Novel
Hyderabad: A Graphic Novel is part of EveryCity is a Story, a unique city-centric graphic storytelling initiative.
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To borrow a phrase from critic Gillian Darley, the novel is "a continuous narrative -a visual argument with which to confront a critical world." It is an amalgamation of the built environment, the people who live in it, and the stories they tell, together forming a narrative that arcs over the centuries. In the end, every city is a story.
http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/a-graphic-tribute-to-the-city-jai-undurti/1/351451.html
The novel focuses on evoking the idea of a city – the geography of myth and fable - rather than documenting its physical fact.
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Reviews:
(Hyderabad: A Graphic Novel), by writer-artist duo Harsho Mohan Chattoraj and Jai Undurti is spectacular - not just because of Chattoraj's stunning, detailed black-and-white art, but also for Undurti's impressively researched, imaginative tale that ranges far across time, space and myth – featuring the mythic city of Aryan Vaejo, Egyptian Catacombs, Stonehenge, the Ice-Ages and BalGangadharTilak.
- Samhita Arni (New York Times bestselling author), Tehelka
What makes this project spectacular is the wealth of age and antiquity that Undurti manages to bring to life in a way that is not only modern and exciting, but doesn’t lose that weight of time resting on the story; spilling centuries old sand to reveal gems of tales and words that twine together to create the tangled webs of myth, legend, fairytale and brushed-off conversations that build a city of life and love and wonder out of well-trodden streets and statuesque buildings.
- Conori Bell-Bhuiyan, Broken Frontiers
The art, by Harsho Mohan Chattoraj, is lush in its depiction of the myths and meanings that knit a city together, and unforgiving in its record of modern dissolution and decay.
- Apoorva Dutt, DNA
The artwork is ‘traditional’ - black and white inkwork realism - but what makes it more than a usual story is the high literary tone of the narrative.
– Indrajit Hazra, Hindustan Times
