SALIK SHAH

Author: Salik Shah

  • Writers of the Future Contest (2020)

    Writers of the Future Contest (2020)

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    My climate fiction story “The Architecture of Loss,” set in a near future where the Indian tectonic plate breaks apart, is now an Honorable Mention for the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest (2nd Quarter, 2020).

  • Science Film Festival Workshop – Bangkok, Thailand (2018)

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    Cover Illustration: Science Film Festival Philippines /    I’ve been working these past few weeks with Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan on the second edition of Science Film Festival in India. We’ve got some amazing films this year, and I’m very excited to be part of the organizing team. Photographs from the Science Film Festival…

  • Google: The Selfish Ledger

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    Titled The Selfish Ledger, the 9-minute film starts off with a history of Lamarckian epigenetics, which are broadly concerned with the passing on of traits acquired during an organism’s lifetime. Narrating the video, Foster acknowledges that the theory may have been discredited when it comes to genetics but says it provides a useful metaphor for…

  • Future of India Fellow

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    I am now a Future of India Fellow! The four-week long fellowship program to be held in New Delhi from June 11 – July 6, 2018 will be attended by “a distinguished cohort of highly motivated individuals selected through a rigorous process from applicants across the world studying in some of the world’s leading universities…. This is…

  • The Indian Experience: Three Poems

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    Three of my poems “At Rajiv Chowk Metro Station,” “Khas Pidgin” and “Foreign Tongue” appear in the latest Sage issue of Coldnoon, an international journal of travel writing & traveling cultures. These poems are part of my debut collection, Khas Pidgin. PDF: https://coldnoon.com/…/12/The-Winter-is-Coming-to-an-End.pdf Text: https://coldnoon.com/…/sage…/the-winter-is-coming-to-an-end/ I think I wrote the poem “Khas Pidgin” in 2009, and “Foreign…

  • The Battles for Justice: No Country for Women

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    “The Battles for Justice: No Country for Women” is an illustrated dispatch from India on the women’s struggle for justice from the times of the epic Mahabharata to the rise of a Hindu government and god-men in India. It’s a personal and complicated reaction to the rare conviction of a god-man, who sexually exploited women…

  • The Story of India’s Partition: 2nd Edition!

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    Paperback available to order from Amazon POD. Illustrated by Anju Shah, the newly redesigned and updated edition of “The Story of India’s Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan” is now available on Amazon and Smashwords. You can order the new gorgeous edition as a digital bundle in three formats (epub, mobi & pdf) from Gumroad:…

  • New Book: The Story of India’s Partition

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    On July 8, 1947, Cyril Radcliffe arrived in India for the first time. He had five weeks and four judges to settle the boundary between the newly independent India and a newborn state of Pakistan. After drawing the “ Radcliffe Line,” the British officer burnt his papers, refused his fee, and left the wounded continent…

  • Asimov’s Science Fiction

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    Good news! My contributor's copy of Asimov's Science Fiction finally arrived today! #happydance #daymade #speculativepoetry pic.twitter.com/HwZq5DOXOf — Salik Shah (@salik) July 12, 2017 More!

  • Unmaking the Post-Truth World With Global SF | Locus Magazine

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    On the origin, scope and purpose of Mithila Review—my guest post, “Unmaking the Post-Truth World With Global SF,” is now up at Locus Magazine. Excerpt: Mithila is a glorious kingdom ruled by philosopher kings in the Sanskrit epic Ramayana. Millennia later, say in an alternate universe, it’s a decolonized terrain beset with intolerance and violence,…