Aindri • ᴬ • @aindrizzle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The translator's note on this is fantastic! This would be a such a solid animated series! Never imagined I'd end up making fanart after a book project but it's so good www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ctzf...youtube.comNiladri Chatterjee speaking on Shibram Chakraborty's "Chele Boyoshe"YouTube video by Melus Melow 110
Aindri • ᴬ • @aindrizzle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026"Your society has kept girls in cages. Since I can't get them, I'm loving their brothers as noble revenge" Taresh and Satish Among the of bold proclamations of love, the story also goes into the horrors of rape and violence. ── ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ ── 010
Aindri • ᴬ • @aindrizzle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026But the eternal story was this: Revolutionary proposes police disposes 110
Aindri • ᴬ • @aindrizzle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Maybe those boys on that distant star were free. Ashanto and Mohun, two teenaged boys, meet in Calcutta and are immediately attracted to one another. Fun fact: The author wrote one of the longest poems about kissing (Chumban) :D 110
Aindri • ᴬ • @aindrizzle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026"The Irish and us, we have the same goal" Sigurd and Deben The story is set in the 1920s, during the nationalist movement and peasant resistance in the Bengal Province, British India 110
Aindri • ᴬ • @aindrizzle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026₊˚ ✧ ━━━━⊱Commissioned⊰━━━━ ✧ ₊˚ My #coverart for Those Boyhood Years by Shibram Chakraborty. First published as Chhele Boyeshe (1926) now translated to English after a century. Those who had asked: Shibu da wrote yaoi?? 🤔😎 Is it doomed? ... ❌ OK now my ୨୧ ⏔⏔⏔Fanart⏔⏔⏔ ୨୧ (thread) 110
Aindri • ᴬ • @aindrizzle.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Taresh, the boy hunter. Those Boyhood Years is the first English translation of a century old coming-of-age BL set in colonial Bengal, 1920s. "Chhele Boyeshe" (1926) was a lost classic by renowned children's book author Shibram Chakraborty. Check with Speaking Tiger Books for more details! 021
Reposted by Aindri • ᴬ •Chuck Groenink @cgroenink.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Sparrowhawk at the school of wizardry on Roke after his accident with the shadow. 101297300
Aindri • ᴬ • @aindrizzle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Those Boyhood Years by Shibram Chakraborty. First published as “Chhele Boyeshe” (1926) now translated to English. This gay coming of age romance is a forgotten debut novel by a 21 yr old after his stint in prison during the British Raj. He went on to become a Bengali children's book writer later 110
Aindri • ᴬ • @aindrizzle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026"What the revolutionary builds, the police tear down. This eternal story" (I am biased towards the OG Bengali line here:P) #animation #illustration 020
Aindri • ᴬ • @aindrizzle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"1 burger cheesy fry, rape culture bye bye"🍔 "Veg momo 2 plate, rapists's address is the jail gate"🥟 Delhi women's protest slogans 120
Aindri • ᴬ • @aindrizzle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Those Boyhood Years, a forgotten Bengali classic from 1926, now translated to English. One of the first queer novels I have read set in the anti colonial resistance movement in India from that era 031
Aindri • ᴬ • @aindrizzle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"Maybe those boys on that distant star were free" #illustration #animation 042
Aindri • ᴬ • @aindrizzle.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Those Boyhood Years. First published as “Chhele Boyeshe” (1926) now translated to English. This is a coming of age gay romance set against the backdrop of of the nationalist movement and peasant resistance in the Bengal Province, British India 011
Aindri • ᴬ • @aindrizzle.bsky.social · 27/09/2026"The Irish and us, we have the same goal" #illustration #animation 030
Aindri • ᴬ • @aindrizzle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Those Boyhood Years. First published as "Chhele Boyeshe" (1926) now translated to English and published by Speaking Tiger Books 030
Aindri • ᴬ • @aindrizzle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I have to brave this rain #illustartion #animation 051
Reposted by Aindri • ᴬ •Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 20/09/2026From: Little Mole and the Green Star (1969), dir. Zdeněk Miler, Trick Brothers 6654178
Reposted by Aindri • ᴬ •Ami B @auilix.bsky.social · 15/09/2026New comic on the strange and unknown (to me) world of parenthood & this woman on the NYC subway I often think about #comics #autobiocomics 171
Aindri • ᴬ • @aindrizzle.bsky.social · 11/09/2026TIL caffe mocha (moccacino) is derived from the Port of Mokha, Yemen, which was the center of early coffee trade for 200 years 020
Reposted by Aindri • ᴬ •Ami B @auilix.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Birthday print fundraiser is still ongoing! If you donate $20 or more to a charity for Nepal or Columbia this week and you tell me about it, you can win a vibrant A4 print of my pinned #illustration! #fundraiser 051
Reposted by Aindri • ᴬ •Aindri • ᴬ • @aindrizzle.bsky.social · 11/06/2026#Illustration breakdown (hybrid #geliprint) 0124
Aindri • ᴬ • @aindrizzle.bsky.social · 08/09/2026My editorial illustration for Rupsa Dey's short story Fighting Elsewhere: "He could not tell his mother that he lost his job in Prague, or that he is gay, or that he supports her through sex work" Commonwealth Prize shortlist: www.addastories.org/fighting-els...addastories.orgFighting Elsewhere - addaHe could not tell his mother that he lost his job in Prague, or that he is gay, or that he supports her through sex work. When words hide, silence speaks out. 000
Reposted by Aindri • ᴬ •Ami B @auilix.bsky.social · 08/09/2026It's my birthday🎂 (yesterday) and I'm hosting a fundraising giveaway! Follow & donate 20 or more to a cause supporting Nepal or Columbia to be entered to win a vibrant A4 print 🐎 #fundraiser #illustration 292
Reposted by Aindri • ᴬ •Himal Southasian @himalsouthasian.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Flash floods and a glacier-linked ice-rock avalanche have torn through Rasuwa, near the Nepal–Tibet border. A 2009 Himal piece explains how ecologically interconnected the entire Subcontinent is: www.himalmag.com/the-need-for...himalmag.comThe need for a Southasian perspectiveWe tend not to comprehend how ecologically inter-connected we are in the region. 022
Reposted by Aindri • ᴬ •Himal Southasian @himalsouthasian.bsky.social · 01/09/2026In 2016, we reported from Karnali on how climate change was deepening existing vulnerabilities and how a lack of data made it harder to prepare for what was coming. A decade later, the Rasuwa floods remind us that climate disasters rarely hit on a blank slate : www.himalmag.com/change-and-d...himalmag.comChange and dispossessionLack of data prevents a planned response to climate change in the Karnali river basin. 022
Aindri • ᴬ • @aindrizzle.bsky.social · 04/09/2026That's how I thought they were brought in :p apparently not hehe 010
Aindri • ᴬ • @aindrizzle.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Yes! Tintin was my inspo :) it felt very much like that. Cow and orca aunts seem to be both teachers and pioneers of their respective herd. They're adventurous! 110
Aindri • ᴬ • @aindrizzle.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Restoration Cows: Mature cows that live on the remote island of Càrna in the Scottish Highlands whose only task is to graze.. for conservation #Comic 2258
Reposted by Aindri • ᴬ •Ami B @auilix.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Here's an autumnal #kidlitartpostcard from a board book I illustrated ages ago! I love illustration and comics with animals, myths, and nature scenes with lots of details Portfolio: abogin.com #art #kidlitart #illustration 0334
Aindri • ᴬ • @aindrizzle.bsky.social · 03/09/2026International media has failed to link Nepal flood to climate crisis. Experts are not warning anymore- they are witnesses. Nepal is wedged between two large scale carbon emitters and Western aid is also disproportionate to its emissions 121
Aindri • ᴬ • @aindrizzle.bsky.social · 01/09/2026#InternationalBatNight was 29-30Th Aug this year. Here's my wee fruit bat 161
Aindri • ᴬ • @aindrizzle.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Ecological restoration of the island is taken care of by the community marine protection organisation CAOLAS www.carnaconservation.orgcarnaconservation.orgCarna Conservation Initiative - Carna Conservation InitiativeCarna Conservation Initiative Carna Conservation Initiative is demonstrating how it is possible to have a viable business model based around tourism incorporating the importance of tourism as an indus... 010
Reposted by Aindri • ᴬ •Tube Mapper- Luke Agbaimoni @tubemapper.bsky.social · 21/08/2026It was lovely meeting up with Emily the Mastermind of Moquettes for a future favourite station feature. 251156115
Aindri • ᴬ • @aindrizzle.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Is the meeting place for the public at the Scottish Canals Office,Gilmore Place? 100
Aindri • ᴬ • @aindrizzle.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Went to see comedian Roger O' Sullivan. Lofi, Irish vibes: www.edfringe.com/tickets/what... 010
Aindri • ᴬ • @aindrizzle.bsky.social · 20/08/2026This is a lovely talk by the translator of the project who sourced and translated the lost manuscript www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ctzf...youtube.comNiladri Chatterjee speaking on Shibram Chakraborty's "Chele Boyoshe"YouTube video by Melus Melow 000
Aindri • ᴬ • @aindrizzle.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Cover reveal🎇 Boyhood: A lost gay romance first published around 1926 by Bengali author Shibram Chakraborty is now translated into English! I used nature print for the illustration, a pre-photography era technique. More or less- this is a snapshot of my summer produce🥕 #illustration 270
