Who we are
Ashwitha Jayakumar
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Ashwitha Jayakumar is the author of The Book of Emperors: An Illustrated History of the Mughals (Penguin Random House), Incredible Indians: 75 People Who Shaped Modern India (HarperCollins India), and several picture books for emerging readers.
Ashwitha has a fondness for the fantasy epics of JRR Tolkien and Brandon Sanderson, the witty historical romances of Georgette Heyer, and the literary novels of Hilary Mantel, Jane Austen and TH White. Among her favourite comics she counts From Hell, Castle Waiting, Fables, Y the Last Man and Hilda.
Ashwitha holds an MSc in Literature and Society: 1688–1900 from the University of Edinburgh and an MA in Medieval Studies from the University of Leeds. Yes, she is a nerd and proud of it.
Angshuman Chakraborty
Angshuman Chakraborty spent two decades in international education publishing, with roles starting spanning editorial, systems and data, operations, and product and portfolio management, and managing an editorial-centred business unit.
In 2024, he quit his job as Director of Publishing to pursue his dream of reading, talking about, and publishing comics in India.
Angshuman has been reading comics since he could read, and has so many loves that, in 2018, he started For the Love of Comics on YouTube to wax lyrical about everything that captures his heart.
He has a couple of degrees in Literature and Creative Writing somewhere, buried under piles of comics.
