Sarnath Banerjee (b. 1972) is a graphic novelist and illustrator, trained at Goldsmiths, London. He has written four books of graphic fiction, Corridor, The Barn Owl’s Wondrous Capers, The Harappa Files and All Quiet in Vikaspuri and recently Doabdil. As part of his ongoing project involving collaboration with historians, Banerjee produced Liquid History of Vasco Da Gama for the Kochi Biennial, 2014, and The Poona Circle, a series of vandalised history textbooks, for the Pune Biennale, 2017. The same year, for Frans-Hals museum, Harlem, he produced I Got Ginger, 2017; a series of drawings and text that proposes the making of an “insubordinate” children’s book on Dutch colonialism. His billboard series, Gallery of Losers, commissioned by Frieze Projects East for the 2012 London Olympics, was widely displayed in East London. In 2016, he was commissioned to make over 80 murals by Deutsche Bank, for their new office in Canary Wharf 2008. Banerjee co-founded the award-winning publishing house Phantomville which together reporters and comic-book artists to produce works of visual journalism. He also had a regular column, The Enchanted Geography, in The Hindu. His show of illustrated and radio works, Spectral Times, was exhibited recently at the Bhau Daji Lad Museum in Mumbai, 2019. Banerjee currently lives in Berlin.