“Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don’t have to experience it."
—Max Frisch, 1957
ShopTalk is a visual short story about our love-hate relationship with technology & progress.
It's a conversation among people across time & space, questioning each other's roles in shaping society.
The story unfolds in a marketplace at the intersection of past & future, real & digital, Calcutta & California.
It pulls us back to the places we came from, to help us see more clearly where we're headed.
The first issue of ShopTalk is now out as part of IN FORMATION Magazine, a serious satire about technology. (Hint: It's really a piece of performance art masquerading as a magazine!)
🎉 July 2025 Giveaway
To celebrate the launch of ShopTalk, I’m sending out 50 free signed copies of In Formation Magazine to early readers.
Want one? Just drop your mailing info here— first come, first served.
Thanks for being part of this from the start.
— Kingshuk
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The comic was just the first of many cups of hot chai.
ShopTalk is growing into a full-length graphic novel that dives headlong into the turbulence of our times: the social fractures, strange hopes, and unfinished questions of the 2020s.
I’m looking for readers, thinkers, nitpickers, co-conspirators — anyone up for discussing ideas, offering critique, or helping shape what comes next.
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I’m a strategist, artist, & creative futurist.
A systems approach drives all three: I find patterns in chaos, envision possible futures, and map new paths out of current challenges.
An immigrant’s life - split between Calcutta and California - taught me the value of being frugal with resources and generous with imagination.
It fuels my mission of steering tech & business innovation towards broader human value: making ordinary life more meaningful & fulfilling — not just more optimized for consumption.
