Kadak Collective
Kadak Collective is a collaborative group of female artists from South Asia, who work on graphic art projects, including zines, publications, and other forms of story-telling. Its members include filmmaker and webcomic creator Aarthi Parthasarthy, comic artist and illustrator Kaveri Gopalakrishnan. Establishment Kadak Collective was established at the initiative of animator and comics journalist Aindri Chakraborty, in response to a lack of representation of women, and South Asian women, at arts festivals and comic book conventions. The initial group consisted of eight artists from South Asia, apart from Chakraborty: filmmaker and webcomic creator, Aarthi Parthasarthy, artist Garima Gupta, comic artist and illustrator Kaveri Gopalakrishnan, typographer Pavithra Dikshit, graphic designer Mira Malhotra, illustrator and designer Janine Shroff, and designer and director Akhila Krishnan. Later members include comic book writer Kruttika Susarla, and artists such as Rae Zachari ...
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South Asia
South Asia is the southern subregion of Asia, which is defined in both geographical and ethno-cultural terms. The region consists of the countries of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.;;;;;;;; Topographically, it is dominated by the Indian subcontinent and defined largely by the Indian Ocean on the south, and the Himalayas, Karakoram, and Pamir mountains on the north. The Amu Darya, which rises north of the Hindu Kush, forms part of the northwestern border. On land (clockwise), South Asia is bounded by Western Asia, Central Asia, East Asia, and Southeast Asia. The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) is an economic cooperation organization in the region which was established in 1985 and includes all eight nations comprising South Asia. South Asia covers about , which is 11.71% of the Asian continent or 3.5% of the world's land surface area. The population of South Asia is about 1.9 billion or about one- ...
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