Comics have long played an important role in entertaining young people, and even adults. But comics can also have a role in educating them.

Though the Industrial revolution brought prosperity, it enslaved men and made machine more important than human beings and as a result humanity.

During the Indian Freedom Movement, the spinning wheel or the charkha became a symbol against growing industrialism and materialism which were making man a slave of machine and mammon. The spinning wheel sought to bring back elements that the Industrial revolution alienated viz. respect for human component and nature. The first part of the comics examines the relevance of charkha during modern times.

The Urban society has always romanticized rural life. The farmer’s life was idealized and thought to foster independence and self-reliance. To counter global hunger, during the 1950s and 1960s, scientists developed new strains of high-yield wheat and rice. They...