'We saw a darker side of humanity'
Hindustan Times|November 09, 2024
On their book that explores how societies worldwide have responded to plague pandemics across history
Syed Saad Ahmed
'We saw a darker side of humanity'

1 You write that the idea for this book came to you during the onset of Covid-19. How did you decide to draft it as a graphic novel?

Julia Hauser: Sarnath and I met in Germany on the first day of the lockdown. We wondered how the pandemic would change societies, because that's what earlier pandemics did.

For the book, we decided to split up the roles: I worked on the text and he worked on the images. However, it's not a graphic novel. We created it as an illustrated book, to reach a large, non-academic audience, including young people, to show what pandemics do to societies and what societies do with pandemics.

2 What kind of research did this take?

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