“I’ve been to Ireland twice now and it’s my favourite place in Europe,” the comic book artist and journalist Joe Sacco tells me soon after realising that I’m Irish. For The Once and Future Riot, however, Sacco arrived a year after the riots. Hindu Jats make up almost 80 per cent of Uttar Pradesh’s population and are highly represented among the region’s landowners. The Once and Future Riot was supposed to be his last avowedly journalistic work. “I would rather be drawing other things, but Gaza calls.”The Once and Future Riot is published by Jonathan Cape
