EXTRACTS: Illustrators issue 10 © 2015 Book Palace Books (96 PAGES in Full edition)

82 guess I’d taken up chartered accountancy as a career and hung on to it for a while but this craving of mine for art has been around for a long time. I always looked out for something related to animation and cartoons in newspapers. I still have no clue how I would start my library sessions at the accountancy section and end up finding myself submerged in art books. I knew I wanted to become an artist but I didn’t have the know-how. Lack of easy access to the Internet and lack of art school in India held me back for many years. PR: Were any other members of your family artistic? AT: Nada! They were far from being creative. I was not only discouraged, but dissuaded, from drawing, but they could not stop me from filling every blank space of my schoolbooks with scribbles. I believe my family's rejection of my artistic inclinations only made me the more determined to succeed. As a result, my love of ABOVE AND FACING PAGE: Amit's extraordinarily powerful renditions have been put to great use in innovative retellings of Hindu tales in graphic novel format published by Campfire Media.