Appearing as a daily comic strip in the Bengali newspaper that would come to our house, Modesty Blaise was whatever 80s India was yet to wake up to and smell. What is surprising is that here in 2023 - with many states in the US having made the 'sin' of abortion a 'crime'; with Iran still resisting facial-haired mullahs with the sibilant smack of 'zan, zindagi, azadi' (women, life, freedom) - Blaise-di is still Shakti in Spandex.
