FUELED BY PASSION, THRIVED BY CREATIVITY. MEET OUR TEAM
Asvin Srivatsangam
Founder, CEO
Asvin Srivatsangam’s passion and energy has driven the vision behind Yali Dream Creations. Like many of us, Asvin had a dream of creating and sharing stories in some media or other.His early childhood was much enriched by cartoons, later by Indian mythological stories. While years of corporate life suspended this possibility, he kept weaving stories until one day he decided to started his own comic book company. He had always liked story-telling and exploiting visual medium such as graphic novels fascinated him even further.
Sundhar Srinivasan
Advisor
Sundhar Srinivasan has been involved in market development and strategy for companies like ABB, Siemens, Ener1, Austin Energy, Magna IV Engineering, Hubbel Power Systems, and has successfully penetrated several global markets, increased market share and expanded business for various electrical equipment/system including advanced li-ion battery energy storage systems. He has also consulted with world-renowned companies like BCG, McKinsey on global product penetration of electrical products/systems including power equipment, grid energy storage and renewable energy.
He obtained his MSEE from Arizona State University, MBA from Western New Mexico University and his BSEE from Regional Engineering College, Trichy.
Shamik Dasgupta
Senior Writer
Shamik Dasgupta is presently the most prolific Indian writer of graphic novels and comic books. His work ranges from science fiction, fantasy, horror and comedy to superheroes. His claim to fame was with Ramayan 3392 AD in collaboration with director Shekhar Kapur and famed author Deepak Chopra. Ramayan 3392 AD is a groundbreaking series retelling the epic Ramayana in a futuristic post apocalyptic earth. This series was both nationally and internationally acclaimed and revolutionized the art and storytelling of Indian Graphic Novel and comic book medium. Besides Ramayan, Shamik has also collaborated with various other Indian publishers on numerous properties.
Pramit Santra
Sequential Artist
Pramit Santra is comic book artist from Chhattisgarh, India. He is working in this field since 2013 as a freelancer. As a comic artist, his aim has been to create and work on new stories and vivid characters.
Pramit was sequential artists of Rakshak origin series, where he penciled and inked nearly 300 pages.
Bikash Satpathy
Penciller
Bikash is an emerging artist from Orissa, ‘The Caravan’ is his first published Graphic Novel. He followed that up with ‘Devi Chaudhurani’ Volume 1. His latest contribution for Yali Dream Creations is for The Caravan: Blood War series.
Vishwanath Manokaran
Colorist
Vishwanath is an experienced Digital Color artist from Chennai. Vishwa had collaborated with Shamik on many occaassions beginning from Ramayan 3392 AD, Irith from Arkin Comics, Daksh and finally on Caravan. Vishwa had also worked on several international comics like H20 published by Dynamite Entertainment. For Yali Dream Creations he has done the coloring for most of its titles.
Zach Zerries
Script Developer
Born and raised in and around New York City, Zach attended NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, majoring in film production. Merchandise, an action-drama he wrote, is currently in pre-production (shooting 2018) and will star Mickey Rourke, Mira Sorvino, and James Russo. YDC’s most recent addition, Zach is developing “Rakshak,” “The Village,” and “Neelakshi” for the film and television markets.
Ashok Rajagopalan
Writer and Creator
Ashok Rajagopalan is an illustrator and a graphic designer since 1989 and a published writer since 2007. He has illustrated more than 500 books for publishers like Tulika, Scholastic, Macmillan, Oxford University Press and Orient Longman. He has also written and drawn comics for magazines like Chatterbox, Quest, Junior Quest, Hoot, and Toot. Asvin and he have worked together on two graphic novels, ‘Dynast: The Rise of Bherek White,’ and ‘Neelakshi.’
Kishan Harchandani
IT Consultant and Letterist
Kishan Harchandani is Multi Venture Entrepreneur having more than 12+ Years of combined experience in out of the box creative design and Information Technology. He is expert in Ecommerce Platform Development, Web Design and Development & CMS, Domain Management, Server Management & Administration. He is handling all IT related stuff of YDC along with Letterist profile.
Vibhav Pandey (Vishal)
Translator
Vibhav Pandey (Vishal) is An Indian Comic Fan who has strong command in Hindi language since school. He has not worked officially in comics yet, but we saw his impressive language skills in the Facebook so we started working with him as a Hindi translator with Swapnil Singh in our very first Hindi Graphic Novel "Caravan: The Hindi edition". His out of the box skills in writing Hindi dialogues has been widely appreciated by comics fans In Their reviews.
Tazeen Shaik
Letterist
Tazeen is a graphic designer working in the eminent firm Eureka Moment in Mumbai. Though she is not a professional in the comic book field, she is quite passionate about this medium and has collaborated with Shamik several times on his books which includes Daksh, Old School, ‘The Caravan’, Devi Chaudhurani and more.
Ajoy Dasgupta
Logistics Head
Ajoy Dasgupta is Ex Banker. He is presently attached with SBI Audit Work. In Yali Dream Creations he is managing all the Logistics and order fulfilment work.