Vishwajyoti Ghosh engages in visual arts, graphic novels, documentaries, and uses the medium of comics and graphic storytelling to communicate on social and development issues across South Asia.
Vishwajyoti obtained a Master’s degree (MA) in Mass Communications (1997) from the AKJ Mass Communications Research Centre, Jamia Milia Islamia, 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’, a graphic anthology by 48 illustrators and authors from South Asia visually discussing the Partition. He is the co-founder of the Pao Collective, a comic-artist collective. Ghosh has worked on many occasions with other comic artists across the globe. As a recipient of the Prince Claus Fellowship, he is currently working on projects based on oral histories using video documentaries and comics. Besides being a visual storyteller, Ghosh has also engaged as a political cartoonist, writing editorials, and a storytelling podcaster.
