Oct 17 2026 to Oct 17 2026 11 a.m.

Where

Museum of Art & Photography (MAP)

Kasturba Road, Bengaluru 560001

Event Description

What can a few lines, a handful of words and a simple visual gag reveal about the world around us?

For over a decade, Rachita Taneja’s Sanitary Panels has used the apparent simplicity of the stick figure and the immediacy of satire to take on questions of gender, sexuality, caste, discrimination, politics and power. Her comics often begin with something seemingly familiar (a news story, an everyday interaction, a social assumption) and reduce it to its essential contradiction, allowing the absurdity of the system behind it to come into view.

In this hands-on workshop, participants will experiment with this process of reduction: taking a complex question around identity or social belonging and translating it into a short comic. Through writing, sequencing, dialogue, visual economy and satire, they will explore how much (and how little) a comic needs to say.

Rachita Taneja
Failitator

Rachita Taneja is an Indian political cartoonist and the creator of Sanitary Panels. An award-winning satirist and artist, Taneja takes a distinct feminist position in her work, commenting on current affairs and issues of social justice.