6/21/2023 0 Comments Kari by amruta patilAt 29, while working in her first job as a copywriter in an ad agency, Patil created her very first protagonist, the queer and eponymous heroine Kari, an alter ego subconsciously drawn from her own experiences. Take her debut offering Kari, for example. Pregnant with meaning and delivering new realisations with every reread you invest in it, her painstakingly produced works that are decidedly feminist in character have acted as universal cues for young women irrespective of gender identity, sexual orientation and ethnicity. Each of her panels is deliberate and indispensable. Shuttling between the small medieval town of Angoulême (she treats it as her hermitage) and Goa, she creates avant-garde objets d’art that are laced and interlaced with a delicate insouciance - coincidentally all words loaned from French. But it’s good to take on idealistic and unreasonable projects at least a couple of times in a lifetime,” Amruta Patil says unfalteringly on a video call from France. “I haven’t been led by practicality or economics - I should learn to be more balanced. “In this day and age of rehearsal and performance, repeated ad nauseam in the search of instant gratification, you invest eight years in two books.
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