“Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don’t have to experience it."

—Max Frisch, Homo Faber, 1957

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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.

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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.

  • Kingshuk Das