Confluence is happy to announce a new cartoon series called “One Among Us” by Prof Sujit Kumar Chakrabarti. Prof Chakrabarti is a faculty at IIITB, Bengaluru. “One Among Us” first appeared as a regular feature between 2002 through 2007 in Voices, the then students’ newsletter at Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru. The comic strip, with Mr. Laapataa as its main character, was an instant hit among the IISc population. Since then, Mr. Laapataa has been featuring in various online platforms like Club SciWri, 8 Bit etc.
Mr. Laapataa elsewhere on the Web:
Confluence will strive to put out “One Among Us” in as many Indian Languages as possible. Listed below are the comics, along with the date on which they were published.
1. Guru Poornima (13-Aug-2021). Languages: English, Hindi.
2. Problem Solver (26-Aug-2021). Languages: English, Hindi, Bengali, Tamil.
3. Teachers’ Day (04-Sep-2021). Languages: English, Hindi, Bengali, Tamil.
4. Helping Hand (31-Oct-2021). Languages: English, Hindi, Bengali, Tamil.
5. The Trials of Hybrid Teaching (16-Feb-2022). Languages: English, Hindi, Bengali, Tamil.
6. Online or Offline (29-Jun-2022). Languages: English, Hindi, Tamil.
7. Virtual Socialisation (15-Aug-2022). Languages: English, Hindi, Bengali, Chhattisgarhi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Tamil
8. Teachers’ Day 2022 (15-Sep-2022). Language: English
9. Online or Offline (Part 2) (19-Nov-2022). Language: English
10. ChatGPT (14-Feb-2023). Language: English
11. Motivation in Academia (07-Sep-2023). Language: English
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