Vishwajyoti Ghosh engages in visual arts, graphic novels, documentaries and comics. His core interest lies in documenting contemporary India through visual storytelling. Working with diverse styles and forms, Ghosh often uses traditional practices (watercolours, pencils, pen and ink, etc.) and strategies to explore the present times. Through this, his concern lies in engaging with voices that are constantly disappearing from the foreground, such as fellow art practitioners who are falling off the map with changing times, contemporary histories, and voices from the fringes.
His most ambitious work has been the graphic novel Delhi Calm (HarperCollins India, 2010). In 2013, he curated This Side That Side: Restorying Partition (Yoda Press), an anthology of graphic narratives by 48 illustrators and authors from South Asia. He is also the co-founder of the Pao Collective, a comic-artists collective. Ghosh has worked on many occasions with fellow comic artists from across the globe. As a recipient of the Prince Claus Fellowship, he steered an arts-based mapping project with migrant industrial workers settled near Delhi in 2012.
Besides having been a political cartoonist and writing editorials on current issues, Ghosh has also explored podcasting as a medium of storytelling through his popular Hindi podcast, ‘Kissa Stories’, available across major audio platforms. Currently, as a visiting faculty member, he teaches Visual Storytelling at Ashoka University.
A Suitable Agency is representing his forthcoming work, The Last Katib, a non-fiction graphic novel chronicling the life and practice of the last surviving Urdu calligrapher in Delhi’s Urdu Bazaar. Uniquely collaborative and experimental, the graphic narrative is a creative conversation with official and personal histories, memories, the shrinking space of organic practice and the language in the everyday politics of the city.