Between The Lines
In this speculative fiction set in India in 2047, Tarun K. Saint has his protagonists participate in a virtual exhibition of the Partition of August 1947. And the immersive experience is traumatic as memories bubble up from the lowest depths of time.…[Read More]…
Between The Lines
What relevance does Gandhi have for our times of climate change, biodiversity loss and environmental destruction, and last but not least, the COVID pandemic? Kishore Saint, Ashish Kothari, Aseem Shrivastava find out . …[Read More]…
That’s Life!!!
Curated by Tarun K. Saint for The Beacon, South Asian SF Dialogues series continues conversations about SF from the subcontinent, with authors who have helped shape the genre such as Anil Menon
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That’s Life!!!
Curated by Tarun K. Saint for The Beacon, South Asian SF Dialogues series continues conversations about SF this time with M.G.Vassanji. Followed by an extract from his novel, “Nostalgia”
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That’s Life!!!
Curated by Tarun K. Saint for The Beacon, South Asian SF Dialogues initiates conversations about SF from the subcontinent, with the authors who have helped shape the genre in recent times Here’s Bina Shah …[Read More]…
Bookshelf
The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction (2019), a first-of-its-kind compilation offers a fascinating display of South Asian writing. In the Introduction, Tarun K. Saint takes us on a journey over its rich past and the exciting future of this genre..…[Read More]…
Bookshelf
Sami Ahmad Khanoffers a critical reading of Indian Science Fiction (ISF) based on mythology (M), ideology (I) and technology (T) that shape it and its fictional re-imaginings as an alternative to a male Eurocentric perspective of the genre. …[Read More]…
Bookshelf
This volume of south Asian Science Fiction with its hybrid, genre-bending stories and poems adds a new dimension to the corpus of south Asian literature with their attempt to represent the contemporary moment with all its myriad nuances finds Shweta Khilnani…[Read More]…
That’s Life!!!
Manjula Padmanabhan, playwright, comic strip artist, writer and columnist based in Delhi, India and the USA also writes literary and SF/speculative fiction converses with Tarun K. Saint who curates this series for The Beacon. …[Read More]…
That’s Life!!!
South Asian SF Dialogues series, curated by Tarun K. Saint for The Beacon continues with Tashan Mehta, who holds that SF/fantasy help explore the realities of disenfranchised groups. Her debut novel, The Liar’s Weave, was shortlisted for the Prabha Khaitan Woman’s Voice Award. Alok Bhalla joins in.…[Read More]…
That’s Life!!!
This session features Sami Ahmad Khan, writer and SF critic/scholar from Delhi, India who teaches a course on this genre in conversation with Tarun K.Saint who curates this series for The Beacon. …[Read More]…
That’s Life!!!
South Asian SF Dialogues series, curated by Tarun K. Saint for The Beacon features Soham Guha, bilingual speculative fiction writer and critic from Kolkata, on the genre’s rich SF tradition in Bengali and his own odyssey …[Read More]…
That’s Life!!!
South Asian SF Dialogues series, curated by Tarun K. Saint for The Beacon is back with the next instalment of conversations, this one with Navin Weeraratne from Sri Lanka, who writes speculative fiction and military SF with a dose of hard science. Followed by a sampling of his fiction.…[Read More]…
That’s Life!!!
Curated by Tarun K. Saint for The Beacon, South Asian SF Dialogues engage with Saad Z. Hossain, fantasy, weird fiction, and SF/speculative fiction writer from Bangladesh. Followed by ‘The Endless’ his short fiction…[Read More]…
That’s Life!!!
Curated by Tarun K. Saint for The Beacon, South Asian SF Dialogues series continues conversations about SF this time with Kehkashan Khalid.…[Read More]…
That’s Life!!!
South Asian SF Dialogues series, curated by Tarun K. Saint for The Beacon has Vandana Singh, physicist and writer of speculative fiction engaged in a conversation on the importance of speculative fiction in re-imagining our world with alternative futures…[Read More]…