I went to an amazing panel at the Asian American Writers’ Workshop yesterday on Amar Chitra Katha comics. The panel featured Das Racist’s Himanshu Suri, poet and novelist Monica Ferrell, filmmaker and graphic novelist Keshni Kashyap, and visual artist Chitra Ganesh. Each of the speakers discussed their own personal relationship to the comics, the way that their influence appears in their work, and the ways that they have come to terms with the comics’ nationalist politics as adults. Considering the incredible significance that Amar Chitra Katha has among diasporic Hindus, it was very refreshing to see a panel that was able to balance an affection for the series with a very critical eye. I haven’t revisited these comics in a long time, but after attending the panel, I can’t wait to pick some up again.