‘We had Spider-Man celebrate Diwali, swing from Gateway of India’

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Now an adjunct professor at Columbia Business School, lecturing on media marketing, artificial intelligence, virtual reality and disruptive technologies, Devarajan is best-known for co-creating the Indian Spider-Man, Pavitr Prabhakar...

Though he was not directly involved in the project to create Pavitr Prabhakar and Spider-Man: India, I remember meeting Stan Lee shortly after the first of those comics was released and being incredibly nervous..

Just as Western audiences for years saw Spider-Man swinging form skyscrapers and celebrating Christmas, in our series Indians were able to see this iconic character swing from the Gateway of India and celebrating Diwali with his aunt Maya..

My current business, Graphic India, is the culmination of a lifelong dream to really build characters, heroes and stories that tap into the unique creativity and culture of India, but appeal to audiences worldwide in the same way that characters such as Spider-Man, Harry Potter and Batman do...

As a first-generation Indian-American growing up in the early 80s in a town where we were the only Indian family, I felt a particular kinship with the characters Stan Lee brought to life so vividly in his work...