Category: Interviews
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Interview: “Shambhala,” Tibet, and Mithila Review
Photograph: My workstation around 2015 at the time of writing “Shambhala.” Here is my interview with Juggernaut Books, which published “Shambhala” as part of a science fiction series edited by Indrapramit Das in 2016: Do you write everyday? Where and when do you write? Writing is thinking through small and hard problems for me; being…
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TED Talk: Finding a Home for Your Story
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.
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The Ingredients of a Breakthrough Story – The Flights of Foundry
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…
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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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McDonald’s vs Kamadhenu — Debkumar Chakrabarti
Kolkata-based artist and professor Debkumar Chakrabarti on how he sees Indian capitalism: “McDonald’s stands as a representative of global capitalism… and Kamadhenu was a [miraculous] cow. Whatever you want, it’ll give it to you. That is to me some sort of representative of the Indian type of capitalism. [In my art,] I try to show…