Vinayak Varma

My cover artwork for a Brainwave issue that focused on movie special effects

This is the post I've been dreading writing because there's so much to tell and I really don't know where to begin. It's the big fish, and this net ain't wide enough to contain it.

[If you don't have the patience to read through everything, by the way, feel free to scroll down to the pretty images. If you do have the patience: as always, please pardon the many parentheses.]

In January of 2010, I heard from a couple of my journalist friends from the New Indian Express (where I had previously served as editor of its daily general features supplement for a few months), that a children's publishing house was looking to hire a magazine editor. And I was invited to apply. As is the custom with statements of such disarming simplicity, there was a boatload more to it: