Nina Sabnani is an illustrator, animator and film-maker, currently an Associate Professor at the Industrial Design Centre, I I T Bombay, where she is also pursuing her doctoral studies in storytelling. Until recently she was at the N I D, Ahmedabad, having spent over twenty-two years as a teacher, and served as the coordinator of the Animation and New Media disciplines for several years.
Her most recent work, Mukund and Riaz, both as an animated film and illustrated book, published by Tulika, has won critical acclaim internationally. In fact, Deux Amis, its French edition, was launched by Syros at the a Paris Book fair in March 2007. This simple, endearing story of two friends dealing with Partition has also been published in Pakistan by Oxford University Press. Nina has illustrated several books for Tulika.