A graphic novel that brings to life Francis Buchanan’s survey of south India

Although he is someone who “could not believe that curses come true…I am quite a rationalist”, he thought of investigating this story, going into the project with an open mind. “Wherever we went, in Mysore and places around it, people generally believed in it,” he recalls. And while there appeared to be some anecdotal evidence, with many of the Mysore rulers failing to beget heirs and having to adopt, “it all seemed very confusing,” says Sashi, who researched the subject, with a colleague, for a year and a half, “getting stuck along the way, because there was very little evidence about all this.”