When We Are Strangers by Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar & Sarnath Banerjee is a historical graphic novel about Gandhi, Bacha Khan and the anticolonial struggle. History often gets reduced to dates, leaders and borders—this book looks at people and relationships caught within them.
About When We Are Strangers
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan: two kindred souls united against the British empire. The story unfolds from a Peshawar bazaar where the Khudai Khidmatgars stood unarmed before British bullets, to Gandhi and Bacha Khan walking through Bengal and Bihar to suture Partition wounds. Written by Vazira Zamindar and illustrated by Sarnath Banerjee, this India Penguin paperback moves through acts of care, self-discovery, friendship and steadfast faith. ISBN 9789377306779, 168 pages, July 2026. Penguin Random House India.
Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar is a twentieth-century historian at Brown University, known for The Long Partition and the Making of Modern South Asia.
