Through Time and Space

“It is a story with no beginning or end,just a loop of events through infinity,” says Nair. “This is signified in the opening scene where the protagonist stands outside the hospital before kidnapping a baby,voicing his thoughts — ‘If someone asked me where it all started… I wouldn’t know where to begin’,” quotes Nair from the novel. He explains that the idea is structured in such a way that it is like an infinite loop.

23-year-old Nayan Bhadra has worked on the page layouts for the graphic novel with Nair. The artwork and inking is by Satyaranjan Bisoi,also a colleague. “Our venture took an unexpected turn during the making of the graphic novel. It helped us start our own design studio,” says Nair,adding that their Mumbai-based studio helps with the pre-production processes for films.

While Nair has studied engineering and film editing,Bhadra,also a film editor,has worked in Bollywood films and television commercials. Continuum’s illustrator,28-year-old Bisoi,is a fine arts graduate from Orissa.

“The trick really was to come up with a style that is unique,but at the same time ensuring that the layout is familiar enough so that the readers don’t get lost,” he says about the process of his debut novel. Nair’s project has already generated interest in cyberworld,especially in comic and graphic novel-based communities.

The subject also delves into the world of a hermaphrodite,a near non-existent human form,who battles a transformed life as a man in the quest to understand the purpose of existence. “Who knows,maybe hermaphrodites

are the future of human evolution,” Nair muses.

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