Shreyan Laha, Science Fiction Author India has a long, long science-fiction history (books and movies) which is in shadows for most of the times. Movies The first science-fiction Bollywood movie in India dealt with invisibility, basically taking inspiration from the novel “The Invisible Man” of H.G. Wells. The novel is still the most sold science-fiction novel in India. The names of the movie was: Mr. X in Bombay (1964 – starring Kishore Kumar,…
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Own house chicken like lentil? Possibly maybe, perhaps not!
Gautham Shenoy March 9, 2019 ‘Imagination is back with a bang in Indian literature, if the bookstore aisles clogged with all manner of speculative fiction are anything to go by,’ the SF author Anil Menon wrote in a piece recently. I agree. But then, when was imagination ever missing from Indian literature, especially SF, speculative fiction, to come back? For you see, people who wonder if such a thing called ‘Indian SF’ exists…