When We Were Strangers – Vazira Zamindar & Sarnath Banerjee

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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan: Two kindred souls who fought the British empire and were united in thought and deed.

Mahmud and Sita. A photographer and a student of history who wanted to make history, not merely record it.

When We Are Strangers unfolds across some of the most dramatic, and yet often forgotten, moments of the anticolonial struggle—from the streets of a Peshawar bazaar where the Khudai Khidmatgars stood unarmed before British bullets and the Garhwal Rifles laid down their arms, to Gandhi and Bacha Khan as they walked through Bengal and Bihar to suture the wounds of Partition violence – these are stories that resist the theft of a shared inheritance, and insist on the world-making capacity of individual courage and collective dreams.

Written by Vazira Zamindar and illustrated by Sarnath Banerjee, this graphic novel moves through acts of care, self-discovery, friendship and steadfast faith, so that we may yet live together again.