Author: Salik Shah
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The Battles for Justice: No Country for Women
“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…
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The Story of India’s Partition: 2nd Edition!
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:…
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New Book: The Story of India’s Partition
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…
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Asimov’s Science Fiction
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!
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Unmaking the Post-Truth World With Global SF | Locus Magazine
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,…
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[FICTION] Zig’s Boars: A Short Anime in Prose
After Fukushima Available to purchase at Amazon.com Zig flickers against the static wind, resisting the strong pull of the Furnace, a dark skeletal figure sucks the blood off the horizon. The contour of Zig’s body vibrates like strings. All around him the phantom city falls to eerie shambles while the wordcreatures feed on the radiation…
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Instructions for Astronauts
Become a space traveler, star trekker and adventurer for a few minutes! “Instructions for Astronauts” appears in April 2017 issue of Mithila Review, an international science fiction and fantasy magazine. Written by Michael Janairo in nine parts, it’s about our destiny—humanity’s epic journey through time and space. What is this form? Is it art, poetry,…
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Violent Delights: “Which species of bird is a drone?”
Field Notes: A photograph from my debut poetry reading at the Partition Museum project – Oxford Bookstore in Delhi / August 2016 War deadens you; street hardens you. I’ve seen boys beaten to pulp, and could do nothing to help them. I’ve come this close to getting smashed, cut or shot, and during those darkest moments of…
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HT Interview
I am sincerely grateful for the opportunity to introduce Mithila Review to the wonderful readers of Hindustan Times! We just launched our first quarterly issue for 2017, and I hope you’ll love it! Apart from excellent poetry, fiction and essays, Issue 7 of Mithila Review features my interview with Hugo-winning Chinese author Cixin Liu (translated by Shaoyan Hu), roundtable…
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Starting 2017, Mithila Review Becomes A Paying Quarterly
Our new multilingual edition with a special focus on the state of science fiction and fantasy in China, Czech Republic and Latin America is now out: Issue 7. Starting this year, Mithila Review is finally turning into a paying quarterly publication thanks to the generous support of our patrons! If you enjoy reading Mithila Review and value what…