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“Oh, my god! You’re punching me” – an adventure in comic book writing in India

This is a repost from my “Nine Panel Grid” column at Comics Waiting Room and was written in 2008. So all temporal references relative to the original date of publication. I did something yesterday that I thought I’ll never do … Continue reading

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[CARTOON] THE YUVRAJ SINGH CHRONICLES

As an Indian Cricket face I was disappointed as any other at the team’s early exit from World Cup T20 Championships. Read an article about Gary Kirsten, the Indian coach talking about how unfit most of the players are. Yuvraj … Continue reading

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[GRUNTLED & ILLUSIONED] “Shake yo rainmaker!”

When I was a kid, I was afraid of the rain. Most of the hindi movies I saw had the hero and heroine cavorting in the rain in songs like this and a few reels later the heroine would be … Continue reading

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[GRUNTLED & ILLUSIONED] “Take me to your leader”

I always found it hilarious that my legal status in USA is technically “Non-immigrant resident alien”. Makes me feel like E.T. About Gruntled & Illusioned Gruntled & Illusioned is a webcomic done by mohaps. Share

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Motivation :)

My favorite internet troll made another appearance today. The asinine comments are already in the spam/trash box, but suffice it to say they were again riddled with obscenities and geographical irregularities (perhaps stemming from the lack of knowledge of Indian … Continue reading

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Business As Usual

This is a short story I wrote a long time ago. Found it in my backups. BUSINESS AS USUAL By Saurav Mohapatra Category: System Log Entry By: Brahma@trinity.gov To: all@trinity.gov Subject: SYSTEM INITIATION SUCCESSFUL The system initiation procedure was successful. … Continue reading

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Trolling on GreatBong’s site – an interesting social experiment

Damn! This $shit is addictive. I’m trolling on GreatBong’s site posting as Jimmy Zhingchak. Basically I’m just copying pasting from Rediff.net postings on the review of Three Idiots that GB has put up pretending to be someone who speaks exclusively … Continue reading

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Oh My God I'm So Afraid

[This is a repost from my old sulekha blog. a chance conversation with someone today, reminded me of this] ‘Twas winter and  snow fell from the heavens like only new england snow can fall. I mean three foot snowbanks and … Continue reading

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Otters, Poits and Eaters of Ed

In the Land of Lit, once there was nothingness. Nothingness begat a ton of water and things stayed wet and watery for a while. Quite some time passed before the water gave birth to something called “life” which was this … Continue reading

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Gruntled and Illusioned #1 – "Disk Space OK"

Hi there, Welcome to the first iteration of “Gruntled and Illusioned” – part webcomic + part anecdotes = full time nerd humor. Today’s story: A secretary had just completed a memo and was having problems saving it. “Do you have … Continue reading

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