Cover illustration for Travel + Leisure magazine's family issue April 2013

Colours of Delhi for HT's 'You read they learn' campaign

I was one of the three illustrators who was part of the   the wonderful 'You read they learn' campaign organised by Pratham books and the Hindustan Times this month . On May 1st, thousand of  copies of  'Colours of Delhi'  got printed on the front page of HT (imagine !) and were  in circulation in the Delhi, Gurgaon and NCR region. The pages could be cut out  and folded into a book and the  story  could be read out to children who cannot read, are learning to read or given to children who cannot afford books. Check out some images here .This book is available for download here http://issuu.com/htonline/docs/yrtl . Jasjyot is one of the other illustrators who was part of the campaign. Do check out his work at http://ultichhatri.blogspot.in/ . You will be left amazed.

Maya saves the day

Some illustrations from Maya saves  the day . A wonderful book written by Meera Nair published by Duckbill books .  

classic stories

A series of book covers I  illustrated for Rupa publications

International book giving day

Feb 14th is international book giving day ! I'll be donating a book to a child and you should try and do so too . Look for more details here bookgivingday.com  and here http://bookgivingday.com/2013/01/13/international-book-giving-day-2013-poster/ . Also do spread the word around and share this on social networking sites .

Yellow Colour for room to read

Spreads from a picture book for Room to read  introducing children to various colours.

doughlicious

I've been working with a new bakery/ cafe called Doughlicious (www.doughlicious.in) over the past 3 months creating their logo , collaterals and a few illustrations for their cafe interiors which I'm sharing here. I usually don't take on logo/branding projects , but this one was hard to resist since it had to do with food !

Taranauts-search for the glytr turquoise

Do you have both these?

legal landscape map for natural justice

I Illustrated map of laws that relate to each element of a village landscape .This was created as part of a document created by natural justice to suggest that while everything is connected at a village level (river, crops, animals, forest, knowledge etc.) the law splits up all these elements. 

Poster for the Avalokiteśvara Trust

Poster,logo and banner for the Avalokiteśvara Trust. Do visit their facebook page . One of the key projects currently run under the umbrella of the Avalokiteśvara Trust is FOUNTAIN OF LEARNING Fountain of Learning a.k.a FOL, is an initiative to nurture and educate children in isolated villages of Ladakh. For the year 2012, FOL is setting up libraries in Ladakh, the remote ice desert region of the Himalayas. Get in touch with them at avalokitesvaratrust@gmail.com in case you would like to contribute some children's books or help in other ways. You will make some very sweet children very happy :)

The Pao Anthology

The Pao Anthology brought out by an initiative of the Pao collective is going to be available at book stores in a couple of weeks . So, watch out for a book with this gem of a cover illustrated by the inimitable Orijit Sen Now why would you not pick up a book with a cover like that . You can also order it on flipkart  soon. I collaborated with the wonderful writer and  poet Salil Chaturvedi on his equally wonderful story called 'The Pink'. Here are a few pages for you to sample .

This book makes no sense!

Two pages and the cover of an upcoming title by scholastic . This totally relevant , irreverant book of nonsense has been edited by Michael Heyman and was good fun to illustrate.

366 words in Delhi for Fun OK Please

Two illustrations for '366 words in Delhi' . A book for kids about
the important landmarks in Delhi. The second illustration was one
of the first trials done for the book and was ultimately used in a different way

Jungle tales for children

Book cover done for Rupa publications

illustrations for natural justice

Illustrations for South Africa based Natural Justice ; Lawyers for Communities and the Environment is a non-profit organization,that aims to  facilitate the full and effective participation of Indigenous peoples and local communities in the development and implementation of laws and policies that relate to the conservation and customary uses of biodiversity and the protection of associated cultural heritage. naturaljustice.org. The document for which the illustrations were done can be seen at http://naturaljustice.org/wp-content/uploads/pdf/BCP-Toolkit--final-online-version-(1).pdf

Tamil new year promo for discovery networks

Music once again by the 'oh so brilliant' Bindumalini.

Do go to www.sunosuno.in to listen to some of her music .

Her really awesome album sunobhai can be purchased

 from flipkart.

When Ali became Bajrangbali

Here are pages from a Tulika book I recently illustrated. This delightful
 story has been written by Devashish Makhija . This is one spunky
simian we have here !

Whispers in the classroom, voices on the field

Here's a cover for 'Whispers in the classroom, voices on the field ' an
anthology for school stories published by wisdom tree. Disclaimer : This
isn't the final cover that was used. Below is my first piece of published
writing( well ..sort of writing) an account of what school was like for me.
Do right click the images and select 'open in new tab' to view the 
writing properly !

Grandma's Bag of Stories - Sudha Murty

Two options for the cover illustration of Sudha Murty's book . The one  on
the left is the final cover.

And here are a few black and whites done for the insides.

Pratham Books calendar 2012

Here are a  few illustrations I made for the Pratham books calender 2012. 

Read more about it here http://prathambooks.org/pratham-books-calendar-2012

Do buy one if you can . All proceeds from the calendar sale will be used to buy books for Pratham Books Champions’ , who in turn will spread the joy of reading to children in their communities. Your gesture will thus bring us closer towards our mission of putting “a book in every child’s hand”!

Pongal promo for discovery networks

A quick pongal promo for discovery networks(Tamil Nadu)

The really cool track was done by Bindhumalini

Stories of Wit and Wisdom

The first attempt at a a cover for a series of kid's books
 called 'stories of wit and wisdom'. (Puffin)

and the final illustrations

Champak magazine (november)

Champak, the children's magazine has recently been revamped.This
illustration is for their November issue.

Very Merry broccoli soup

very merry broccoli soup

this appeared today on theydrawandcook.com :)

birds I'm not very fond of

Wrapping paper

Taranauts-the mystery of the Syntilla Silvers

Coming soon

Ahem!

Since this 'rockstar' has been in the news lately; I thought I'll put up this cover I painted for a book called 'The life and times of Baba Ramdev' almost a year back . Yes; they did specifically ask me not to mess around with that eyelid.