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Living legend Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay's Adbhuture (meaning spookily uncanny) series has always been featured with artworks by Kolkata cartoonist Debshish Deb. While my style is vastly different from him, here is a tiny glimpse of my effort to illustrate the stories and novels that sparked and further fueled the fire of fantasy in me, as a child, and now as an artist.
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Trouble begins for Haribandhu, the eldest son of a doctor, when he is rusticated from his school for failing too many times. Upon the advice of one of his patients, the doctor sends Hari to a hardened boarding school in Motiganj, a town where people both good and evil are trying to find the grave of Pagla Shaheb, a benevolent Englishman. Pagla Shaheb is still seen in Motiganj from time to time, astride a white horse, protecting the weak and needy, even a century after his death.
