Unnamati Syama Sundars’ childhood years in Vijayawada were spent leafing through the likes of Calvin and Hobbes, Dennis the Menace, Chacha Chaudhary, and Amar Chitra Katha. He is currently a doctoral researcher at JNU’s School of Arts and Aesthetics and researches the art featured in Chandmama, a popular Telugu children’s magazine founded in 1947. His Ambedkarite cartoons are well-known and regularly feature on roundtableindia.co.in.