Art Gallery: Digital Art by Rohith Rohith is a 25-year-old non-verbal individual on the autism spectrum. He currently attends vocational training at the Amogh Centre and pursues illustration design training at Ishanya India. His journey and art is shared by his mother: Rohith was diagnosed with autism at the age of 1.5 years. In his early years, he was extremely hyperactive and struggled with making eye contact. As he was unable to express emotions verbally, he would resort to screaming when overwhelmed. From early days, Rohith showed a lot of interest in drawing. Unlike most children, he preferred watching advertisements over television shows. He also likes to hoard soft drinks like Fanta and Coca-Cola—not to drink them though. He has a similar habit of collecting biscuits and sweets, preferring to keep them rather than eating it. Over the years, with consistent speech and behavioural therapy, along with learning support at home, Rohith has shown great progress. Today, he ex...

Art Gallery: Gyan Unni's Favourite Characters  Gyan Unni loves to draw and here are some of his favourite characters from books and graphic stories. Gyan loves colours and dislikes junk food. Gyan is currently enrolled at the Centre for Autism and other Disabilities Rehabilitation, Research and Education (CADRRE).

Interview: Aditi Sowmyanarayan on 'Thus She Rose'   Print.Able: Aditi, I read your novel Thus She Rose almost as soon as it became available on Amazon and, as usual, I have my three questions for you.   But before that, let me say I really liked Pooja Sakhlani’s cover – the colours of the winter sky, the snow and fir trees in the background, and Zooni with the pretty top (lovely colour), the tattoo, and the thin gold chain. And now, my questions: Print.Able: A chalk and cheese difference in style and content between Gobble Thy Prejudice and Thus She Rose .   I enjoyed that. Very serious, hardly any humour, unexpected twists, including at the end – did the story just come to you in entirety or did you have to work a lot to put it together? Aditi: Thank you! I love the cover design too and it’s the wallpaper on my phone! So, let me just give you a bit of background about how the idea for this novel came about. This was right after my short story collection, Small S...

  Art Gallery: Art by Gyan Unni     Gyan was introduced to Print.Able by Dr. Vijay Raghavan, Honorary Director of the Centre for Autism and other Disabilities Rehabilitation, Research and Education (CADRRE). Gyan is currently enrolled at CADRRE and was recently in Bengaluru as one of the live artists for the Spectrum of Art event held at the Bangalore International Centre. Gyan loves colours and dislikes junk food.    Featured below are some samples of his artwork made for the event.