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MOMMIES Written by Richa Jha Illustrated by Priya Sebastian Published by Pickle Yolk Books 2024

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The last of my illustrations for Saba Mahjoor's monthly column in The Hindu Magazine.

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Illustrations for a monthly column by Saba Mahjoor in The Hindu newspaper. These are stories about how women navigate their lives through patriarchal systems in a village in Kashmir.

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Portrait of Mirza Ghalib for an essay in The Caravan magazine

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Illustration for The Masque of Red Death by Edgar Allen Poe

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Illustration for book cover Firefly in the Dark. Speaking Tiger Books.

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Illustrations for picture book Is It The Same For You? published by Seagull Books. October 2019. 

Interview with illustrator Priya Sebastian

Cover design by Sunandini Bannerjee using illustrations by Priya Sebastian.

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Illustrations for posters for Bangalore International Centre to mark International Women’s Day.

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For Yoda Press. Since the book is a study about Indian women’s bodies from birth to death, I represented a woman within a Pitcher plant to show that a woman’s womb  is made to kill that which it is supposed to nurture, in a sense much like a Pitcher plant itself. Alternately, the Pitcher plant in this cover illustration can also be a metaphor for Indian society which rather than giving a woman the freedom to grow, inevitably captures and destroys her through its social norms.

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For a commission by the Commonwealth Writer’s website - Adda. 3 illustrations I did on the theme of Partition.  Top illustration for Fiction Middle illustration for Poem Bottom illustration for Non-fiction

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THE FLIGHT

Illustration for extract of novel The Black Hill by Mamang Dai in The Indian Quarterly (IQ Magazine). A story about a pair of lovers who escape into a new life. SOLD

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Collages and Double spreads for Current Conservation magazine

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Three charcoal drawings from an exhibition of my works.

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Black and White Collages 

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Cover for Speaking Tiger Books

Illustrations by Priya Sebastian

Cover design by Maithili Doshi Aphale

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BEFORE WE VISIT THE GODDESS

Illustration for a story by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni for Verve magazine, April 2016

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A Killing

Illustration for The Indian Quarterly, April 2018 for a story by Salil Chaturvedi.

The story involves a poet and a fan who briefly tries to seduce him by reciting his poem in the men’s room.

Circle

Illustration for The Indian Quarterly, Jan 2018 for a story by Nicholas Rixon.

The story is about the inherent prejudices among ageing Anglo Indians which ultimately brings about their downfall.

MOUNTAIN DISEASE

Illustration for The Indian Quarterly (IQ Magazine). A story about prejudice between people in the mountains and plains.