2021年7月26日 · Back in 2008, when India’s first female graphic novelist debuted with her stunning Kari – now acclaimed as a classic – the national cultural establishment barely registered Amruta Patil’s...

2022年9月20日 · Amruta Patil, often hailed as the first female graphic novelist in India, calls herself “a diehard foolish person who has done impractical work when I didn't make money off it, out of love.” Photo: Rohit Chawla

Amruta Patil (born April 19, 1979) is a writer and painter. She is the author of Kari (HarperCollins,’08) and Adi Parva (HarperCollins,’12); and her graphic short stories have appeared in anthologies and magazines around the world.

Kari features a lesbian woman as its central protagonist. It is a work of art by the exceptionally talented graphic novelist – Amruta Patil. But Kari is not just a lesbian graphic novel, it is much more. It is a view of the kind of society we inhabit.

2012年9月4日 · Amruta Patil, India’s first female writer-graphic novelist, is quick to counter the trite summary of her 2008 debut from Harper Collins, Kari, as a comic about a suicidal lesbian.

2019年11月9日 · Amruta Patil on forests and the making of her graphic novel 'Aranyaka' Inspired by ideas suggested by Devdutt Pattanaik, 'Aranyaka' looks back on the Vedic Age for lessons in our troubled times...

Amruta Patil, writer-painter, is India's first female graphic novelist. She is the author of Kari and the Mahabharata-based Parva duology (Adi Parva & Sauptik). She graduated from the Goa College of Art and went on to complete her master's from the School of the Museum of Fine Art, Boston, Tufts University.

2019年11月18日 · Amruta Patil’s talk centred on themes underlining her works, her graphic novels and speaking about her latest work, Aranyaka, which was created in collaboration with Devdutt Pattanaik. Her presentation was divided into Six Layers as she called them.

Her debut graphic novel, Kari, commissioned and published by VK Karthika at HarperCollins India, explored themes of sexuality, friendship and death; and heralded Patil as India's first female graphic novelist.