MOST CREATIVE PEOPLE 2017 Ram Devineni
Ram Devineni
Comic-Book Author and Filmmaker
For
giving boys a female superhero
After
attending protests following a horrific gang rape and assault that took place
in Delhi in 2012, India-born Ram Devineni, who was working as an IT analyst at
Citibank in New York, decided to do something to influence the way boys
perceived women. So he wrote a comic book starring Priya, a young female
superhero who seeks justice for victims of violence in India’s patriarchal
culture. Devineni has given away more than 60,000 copies of Priya’s Mirror,
the second book in the ongoing series, since it was published in September
2016. For each release, he has partnered with the augmented-reality company
Blippar to create an immersive reading experience designed to foster empathy
for victims of violence. “The only way to really combat inequality,” Devineni
says, “is to use stories and put them into the lives of young people.” His
documentary, The Karma Killings, about a series of gruesome murders
in India, was released on Netflix in January 2017.
https://www.fastcompany.com/person/ram-devineni
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