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The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF

Book Review: The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF

The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF is an anthology of speculative fiction that sees both established and emerging Dalit Bahujan writers explore the possibilities and impossibilities of their lives.

Bhavika Govil

Bhavika Govil: Swimming, Floating, Sinking

In conversation with Bhavika Govil about her debut novel Hot Water, choosing water as a theme, and what it takes to write from children’s perspectives.

Annie Zaidi

Annie Zaidi: A Brief Bit of Magic

In conversation with Annie Zaidi about her love for theatre and playwriting, where The Comeback came from, and the trust and solidarity that the arts require.

Alina Gufran, author of No Place to Call My Own

Alina Gufran: A Sacred Private Practice

In conversation with Alina Gufran about her debut novel No Place to Call My Own and how her experience as a filmmaker helps her write better.

The Decade of the Indian Internet Novel

The Decade of the Indian Internet Novel

Not only is the Internet Novel in India an experiment with contemporary form, but also a sign of a difficult political moment. 

Gigi Ganguly

Gigi Ganguly: Open Worlds, Organic Truths

In conversation with author Gigi Ganguly about her love of wordplay and Biopeculiar, her new collection of stories that explore the natural world.

Dharini Bhaskar

Dharini Bhaskar: The Promises of Possibility

In conversation with Dharini Bhaskar about playing with time, space, and agency in her latest novel Like Being Alive Twice.

Tashan Mehta

Tashan Mehta: Time and Space and a Complicated Place

In conversation with Tashan Mehta about looking at the world through fresh eyes, talking to her past self, and the process of building new worlds from the ground up.

Siddhartha Deb

Fever Dreams and Buried Truths

In conversation with Siddhartha Deb about his novel The Light at the End of the World, the ethics of fictionalising real-world incidents, and how the fantastic can illuminate the real.

Praveena Shivram

Fertile Ground in Grey Spaces

In conversation with Praveena Shivram about fluidity in worldbuilding, reimagining mythology, and transcending binaries in her debut novel Karuppu.

Tejaswini Apte-Rahm

The Abstraction of Desire

In conversation with Tejaswini Apte-Rahm about historical fiction and her debut novel, The Secret of More.

What Would It Mean If Women Were Allowed to Dream?

Salma’s Women, Dreaming is a feminist text; a generational tale of women bound to each other by blood, marriage, and proximity.