SALIK SHAH

Author: Salik Shah

  • TED Talk: Finding a Home for Your Story

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    Re/Tweet your reply: https://twitter.com/salik/status/1429640601071353863 Update – 19/10/21: The video recording is now up at TED.com and Youtube channel: If you prefer to read, the script is here on Google Docs.

  • Indian Science Fiction: Patterns, History and Hybridity (New Dimensions in Science Fiction) – University of Wales Press, 2021

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    I am thrilled and humbled to see this first of significant books to come on Indian Science Fiction, which mentions the work of Mithila Review and Kalpabiswa, among others, and also cites my article on the Indian SF: Indian Science Fiction: Patterns, History and Hybridity (New Dimensions in Science Fiction) by Suparno Banerjee – University…

  • The Ingredients of a Breakthrough Story – The Flights of Foundry

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      Flights of Foundry is a virtual convention for speculative creators and fans. The writers, the artists, the game makers and podcasters. The dreamers, thinkers, and doers.       The Ingredients of a Breakthrough Story Moderators: Coral MooreSpeakers: Eliana González Ugarte, Andy Dudak, Salik Shah, Valerie Valdes Editors and authors talk about how they…

  • Plural Worlds, Plural Futures: South Asian Speculative Fiction

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    A discussion with four South Asian science fiction and fantasy writers on imagining new worlds and futures: https://youtu.be/fsy1ps3av_c Today in #TSAL2020 we have a panel on Speculative Fiction featuring @miminality, @singlecrow, @salik, @mamohanraj, and moderator @deepasivarajan 📖 Last hour to register 👇🏽#fiction #Literature #litfest https://t.co/FbGF83aeYb — Tasveer (@TasveerSeattle) October 24, 2020 ABOUT TSAL, along with…

  • FIYAHCON – Fringe Programming

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    FIYAHCON is a virtual convention centering the perspectives and celebrating the contributions of BIPOC in speculative fiction. Hosted by FIYAH Literary Magazine. The inaugural event will take place on October 17-18, 2020 and will host a variety of entertaining and educational content surrounding the business, craft, and community of speculative literature. Thank you to FIYACON,…

  • 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…