First Person SecondDraft: Remembering Mario Miranda: How he visualised Shekhar Gupta’s chronicle of wartime ‘Hotels in Hell’

Remembering the artist Mario Miranda on his birth centenary & how he visualised Shekhar Gupta’s chronicle of wartime ‘Hotels in Hell’. ThePrint Editor-In-Chief shares his experiences of his stay at hotels while reporting on major stories— From Baghdad to Kabul, Fatehpur to Amritsar & Beijing to Jerusalem. The artwork for this piece, first published for the Taj magazine in 2003, was visualised and created by Mario Miranda. The video contains original sketches by the legendary artist.

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First Person SecondDraft: Remembering Mario Miranda: How he visualised Shekhar Gupta’s chronicle of wartime ‘Hotels in Hell’ is an episode from ThePrint by ThePrint.

This episode is 42:36 long.

This episode was published on May 2, 2026.

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