Being born and growing up in the urban environment of Calcutta/Kolkata, every stage of my daily life is messed up and moulded with different experiences of the city. There is a lot of discrepancy between the appearance of the city in childhood and the appearance of it today. With the passage of time and governments, way of thinking and living have also changed. Being associated with art, I perceive and judge the various events in the city from my perspectives. As an enthusiastic observer of different stories, I have tried to incorporate them in my artworks and create visual narratives, responding to socio-political and civic life of Calcutta. From installations with found-objects, small sculptures, and everyday materials in the duration of my MFA years at Rabindra Bharati University, my recent works after graduating has been drawing based artworks in the form of the Artist-Book. This form evolved during the Covid-19 pandemic (the impossibility of going outdoors) and are paper-based and paper constructions, creating from available materials in my home-studio, and experimenting with making and viewing. Investigating the epidemics that occurred in the world before Covid-19, my search has been to find out how we got acquainted with the term ‘Corona’ which was incidentally a typewriter company founded in 1886 in the US. In a lateral way, typewriting and the form of the book coincided to frame the kind of artist-books I starting creating during this pandemic. Drawing from the formal frame-after-frame from films, the popular accessibility of the graphic novel of image and text, and how artist-books are conceived and illustrated by artists, I create visual narratives and peoples’ stories. The cover text of my artist-book/graphic novel is screenprinted while the whole book is hand-painted with the human body and human feelings as central in my practice. They are research-based (site-specific stories, newspapers, Wikipedia, social media, walking in the city, interviews and photography). These are translated to handpainted chapters in my artist-books.