Vishwajyoti Ghosh

Vishwajyoti Ghosh engages in visual arts, graphic novels, documentaries and storytelling. Ghosh uses the medium of comics and graphic storytelling as an advocacy tool to communicate on social and development issues across South Asia.

Vishwajyoti obtained Master’s degree (MA) in Mass Communications (1997) from AKJ Mass Communications Research Centre, Jamia Milia Islamia, New Delhi and Bachelor’s degree in Applied Arts (1994) from College of Art, Delhi University, New Delhi.

His graphic novel ‘Delhi Calm’ (2010). Remembering a particularly incisive and controversial period of 1975 to 1977, referred to in India as ‘The Emergency’, the graphic novel brings together realistic comic passages with political commentaries and fantastical elements. In 2013, he curated ‘This Side That Side: Restorying Partition’, an anthology of graphic narratives by 48 illustrators and authors from South Asia. With impressive diversity of styles and perspectives, it deals with the Partition of the Indian subcontinent. “This astounding collection of talent from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh examines the human need for something other than what history and its makers dictate”, praised US illustrator Joe Sacco, pioneer of modern comic reporting.

He is also the creative director of the Windchangers initiative, which helps social campaigns using visual storytelling. He is the co-founder of the Pao Collective, a comic-artists collective. Ghosh has worked together on many occasions with other comic artists across the globe.
As a recipient of the Prince Claus Fellowship, he has steered an arts-based mapping project with the migrant industrial workers settled near Delhi. He is currently working on projects based on oral histories using video documentary and comics.

Besides being a graphic novelist and writing editorials on current issues, Ghosh is also an avid podcaster as a medium of storytelling with his popular podcast ‘Kissa Stories’, available across all major platforms.

Currently also as a visiting faculty member, he is teaching courses on Visual Storytelling at Ashoka University, Sonipat.