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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Teaching at Bucknell University, McLain was already deeply engaged in exploring visual culture in modern India, with an emphasis on representations of popular devotional art in the region. But why? Had she stumbled on the true first edition of the Krishna comic book? 11 from the ACK stable in 1969, there had been another smaller print run that had completely disappeared. She wonders if, even before the first print run of this famous title no. Here, the miracles are absent: Krishna is not holding aloft that mountain. Karline McLain notices that this version differs from the one in circulation. As strange and curious as this may seem, it is why she is here in India: to study these comics that most of us cherish, but haven’t given a second thought to.Īnd then, suddenly, she makes a discovery: a tattered copy of the Krishna comic book. In a bazaar in Mumbai’s Santa Cruz, a rather attractive American professor of religion is combing the wares of those familiar footpath book sellers for old issues of Amar Chitra Katha. ![]() Professor Karline McLain’s exploration of visual culture in modern India.Īug 02, MUMBAI, INDIA (THE HINDU) In many households, other comics were seen as a waste of time and discarded, but ACK was preserved carefully. The Sampradaya Sun - Independent Vaisnava News - News - August 2009 ![]()
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