PANELS, CONFERENCES, FELLOWSHIPS, SEMINARS & WORKSHOPS
- Will Food Outsmart Us: Science Fiction Books on Food – FutureCon. Forthcoming. September 3, 2021.
- Finding a Home for Your Story – Tedx. Forthcoming. September 11-12, 2021.
- The Ingredients of a Breakthrough Story – The Flights of Foundry, USA. April 17, 2021. Details.
- Plural Worlds, Plural Futures: South Asian Speculative Fiction – Tasveer South Asian LitFest, Seattle, Washington – October 24, 2020. Details.
- Fringe Programming – FIYAHCON: Two Panels – “Running a Genre Magazine” and “Finding and Getting Involved in Your Local SFF Scene.” Fiyah Literary Magazine, USA. October 16, 2020. Details.
- The Founder’s Meeting – Plurality University. Paris, France – Nov. 30, Dec. 1, 2018. Details.
- Workshops of Horrible Creation: 200 Years of Imagined Humans – The Centre of Advanced Study, Department of English, Jadavpur University, and Kalpabishwa Webzine. Kolkata – Nov. 22-24, 2018. Details.
- Science Film Festival Workshop – Goethe-Institut Thailand. Bangkok. August 20-22nd, 2018. Details.
- Future of India Fellowship – NSUI / INC. India International Centre Annexe, New Delhi – June 11 – July 6, 2018. Details.
- Art – Science – Fiction: Worldmaking in the Contact Zone – Khoj International Artists’ Association & Mithila Review. New Delhi – March 10, 2018. Details.
- Reading, Writing & Publishing Science Fiction in India and China: A Short Introduction to Mithila Review & Cixin Liu’s The Three-Body Problem Trilogy – The Center for Corporate and Financial Law and Policy, O.P. Jindal Global University. Sonipat, Haryana – October 31, 2017.
HONORS & AWARDS
- My short story, “The Architecture of Loss,” wins an Honorable Mention for the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest (2nd Quarter, 2020).
- My debut poetry collection “Khas Pidgin” (Pidgin Studios, 2017) wins nomination for the Elgin Award (2018).
- My short story, “Lakhen & Dragonflies,” appears in a course syllabus at SOAS University of London (2018).
- Nominated for the Toto Awards for Creative Writing in English – Poetry (2018).
- Appointed as The Seasteading Institute ambassador to India (2018).
- Shortlisted for Kumaon Literary Festival’s Fellows of Nature South Asia Short Story Contest (2016).
- My speaker deck on the new rules of brand engagement and storytelling trended on SlideShare with 50K+ views (2013).
INTERVIEWS
- The Week – December 2020. Read.
- The Juggernaut — June 2019. Read. [Paywall]
- Strange Horizons — May 2018. Read.
- Samovar — January 2018. Read.
- GQ India — September 2017. Read.
- Gwendolyn Kiste — July 24, 2017. Read.
- New Myths — March 18, 2017. Read.
- Hindustan Times — January 15, 2017. Read.
- Juggernaut — June 30, 2016. Read.