Amruta Patil is India's most significant and successful graphic novelist. Hosted by DESIblitz Features Writer, Shanai Momi, join us for this in-depth conversation about her extraordinarily varied, original, and creative career.

About the author
Writer-painter Amruta Patil is India's first female graphic novelist. She is the author of Kari (2008), the Mahabharata-based duology Adi Parva: Churning of the Ocean (2012) and Sauptik: Blood and Flowers (2016), and Aranyaka: Book of the Forest (2019), which sits at the cusp of ancient Indian philosophy and ecological-feminist stirrings.

Patil has, among other things, been a speaker at the Jaipur Literature Festival and London Book Fair, and artist-in-residence at the University of Chicago's School of Divinity and La Maison des Auteurs (France). In 2017, she received a Nari Shakti Puraskar from the 13th President of India for “unusual work that breaks boundaries” in art and literature.

In March 2017, Amruta Patil received a Nari Shakti Puraskar from the 13th President of India Pranab Mukherjee for “unusual work that breaks boundaries” in art and literature.

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