# Of Black, White, And Many Colors

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**Author:** Michael Chacko Daniels[⌊A sample cover of the book: black handloom sari with gold embossed nameplate and lettering for the title and author's name. The border of the sari lines the right hand margin of the cover.⌉](https://writersworkshopindia.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Of-Black-white-and-many-colours.jpeg)
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Illustrator:** Aaron Bass and Krittika Ramanujan **Pages:** 364 **Year of Publication:**
2024 **Price:** ₹1000 / US$ 25 **ISBN:** 978-81-968192-3-1 (9788196819231)

_**About the Author**_

Michael Chacko Daniels lives and writes in San Francisco. He grew up in Bombay, 
where he attended St. Michael’s High School, Wilson College, and University of Bombay’s
Department of Economics. He has a Master’s degree from Northwestern’s Medill School
of Journalism. His parents grew up in an ancient Syrian Christian community in the
south Indian state of Kerala. In their middle years, in Bombay, they joined the 
local Baptist Church out of conviction. His adventures in the United States include
five years as a Volunteer In Service To America (VISTA); four as editor/publisher
of the New River Free Press of Grand Rapids, Michigan; four as assistant editor 
in San Francisco at The Asia Foundation; and sixteen at Berkeley’s Center for Independent
Living. He helped start the Jobs for Homeless Consortium of Alameda County (California)
in 1988, and to run it through mid-2004. He is a naturalized citizen of the United
States.

_**About the Illustrator**_

**Aaron Bass** is an artist who primarily works in printmaking media. He has a Master’s
in Fine Art from the University of New Mexico and is a Tamarind-certified professional
lithographer. His prints have been exhibited in Japan, China, South Korea, Mexico,
The U.K., India, Germany, and Pakistan, as well as across the U.S. Animism and folktales
inspire his works. He lives in New Mexico and teaches printmaking at the University
of New Mexico. Each of his illustrations starts as a traditional etching. The image
is drawn through an acid-resistant film with a needle onto a copper plate. The plate
is then submerged in acid, causing the needle-drawn lines to form grooves in the
plate. Successive coating and submersion in acid at varying times create further
detail and tones. The finished plate is then inked with oil-based printer’s ink 
and run through a hand-operated press.

**Krittika Ramanujan** is an artist, born in Chicago, now living in Albuquerque,
New Mexico. She has an MFA in printmaking from the University of New Mexico. She
has three main bodies of artwork on Dante’s _Divine Comedy, _mammal skeletons, and
human rights. She has illustrated (with Aaron Bass)_ The Mendonca Mystery and Other
Stories _(2014) by Michael Chacko Daniels and provided the cover art for several
of A.K. Ramanujan’s Oxford editions. For the current novel, which, along with its
darker themes, has a wild, playful id-like quality, she looked at the late Victorian
artist Aubrey Beardsley who had a genius for composing black and white patterns 
into striking images. The illustrations for this novel were roughly drawn with pen
and ink on vellum paper, without Beardsley’s nibbed pen.

_**About the Book**_

In her foreword to the book, Naomi Rose writes:

“Michael Chacko Daniels, in his inimitable way, paints a wild, sensuous, explosive,
and yearning picture of the collision between ideals and base motives, whether played
out on a human-relational level or in society at large, and what “experience” at
the hands of people with base motives can do to innocence—and what the path to love
and resolution may be.

…And the language, frequently full of poetry and humor, frustration and transcendence,
is a Daniel’s hallmark.”