Desi Bacteria

Desi Bacteria is a series of cartoons, comics and illustrations on the microbial perspective and its aspiration to infect the world. The goal of this comic is to spread information about antimicrobial resistance and its implications on healthcare. Desi Bacteria aspires to be the largest collection of cartoons on antimicrobial resistance on the web. We welcome various pharma, publications and healthcare providers to use our cartoons and illustrations to spread information about this pressing matter.

About the cartoonist

Notorious for rolling up into a ball like a pangolin to avoid answering the phone or meeting people, Saika is a cartoonist and illustrator hailing from Mumbai, the 'The City which Never Sleeps'. A memorable encounter with a beautiful tigress bathing in a Nagzira Wildlife Sanctuary waterhole led him to give up a career in dentistry and take up drawing for wildlife and conservation. Other than Green Humour, he has done cartoons and illustrations for several other publications and organizations such as WWF, Nat Geo Traveller, IDFC, Standard Chartered Bank, Titan, Istock, and has served as an animation designer and illustrator for a Bangalore-based multimedia firm. Other than the awards for Green Humour, Rohan stood 2nd in UMO's 6th International Cartoon Contest and The Time's of India's national level cartoon contest, 'A Day in the Life of India'. He isn't quite comfortable with writing about himself in the third person, but if it makes him sound like a big deal, why not?