I am an Indian Bengali presently based in a small town in Australia for a few years. Professionally, I am a Landscape Architect by day and a cartoonist by whatever time left after the job, especially the night.

I was born in a tiny village named Nidaya, on the banks of river Hooghly. Our village had almost nothing but nature. I had limitless access to fields, ponds, rivers, bamboo groves, and a lot of books.  

My father used to work in the city nearby and eventually, we moved there, a city about 100 km north of Kolkata, where I spent most of my school days. After school, I moved to cities like Howrah, Ahmedabad, Delhi & Newcastle for further studies and work. All these places I have lived in made a great impact on my drawings and thought processes.

Around the age of 5-6, I started to read comics and found a love for drawing, but I never drew well as a kid, drawing cartoons started on the back pages of notebooks in the last couple of years in school, mostly about teachers and friends. My journey with cartoons kept on going with ‘Rebecstatique’, our annual college magazine in 2004, where I witnessed how much people love a simple cartoon about the life around them.

So I kept on drawing. All through my college days, a sketchbook was always in my bag, a kind of diary for me, filled with classroom situations, teacher’s expressions, and our travel stories. It was a hobby which later turned into an exciting venture. The creation of the page Mali's happened only because my friends throughout my study and work life inspired every way possible.

When I started, the content was very personal and random. Eventually, I started to create artwork about environmental & urban issues, current affairs, human emotions, and childhood memories and started to tell stories through art. I am not a trained artist and I don't have the persistence to draw, skills to speak & can't write, I'm just trying to tell some stories with these shortcomings.

Currently, my exclusive cartoons are published weekly on Aro-Ananda application which is an online platform from the largest circulating Bengali language newspaper Anandabazar Patrika. I am grateful that my cartoons may bring a glimpse of happiness to someone.

 Now I am working on my second book for publishing. But it is going to take a while to finish. I don’t have a deadline, just trying to find the right content for the book.