[adityaathalye]

Ditto... several titles they listed were alien to me! And I had no idea about Rokeya.

Alas, these will have to wait a bit until my next book-funding cycle... I accidentally overdid some Diwali discount book shopping and have a slushpile of about forty scifi titles to work through, and a fiscal deficit to repair :sweat-smile: :D

That said, my extant slushpile has Sci-Fi by contemporary Indian / Indian-origin authors...

Lavanya Lakshminarayan's Interstellar Megachef (next up in the reading Q, along with the Strugatsky brothers).

And SB Divya's books:

  Read and enjoyed and will recommend:
  - Meru (very cool embodiment of beings, mythologically-inspired)

  To-read:
  - Loka
  - Machinehood
  - Contingency plans for the apocalypse

[msabalau]

The articles references articles she has written on science fiction, but if one is interested in SFF more broadly, Monidipa "Mimi" Mondal is India's first Hugo nominee, as he co-editor of Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia E. Butler, an anthology of letters and essays. This won a Locus award.

Her fantasy novella, "His Footsteps, Through Darkness and Light" was nominated for a Nebula. She also contributed a DnD adventure to "Journeys through the Radiant Citadel"

Not a profilic author, but a strong one.

[srean]

Hey thanks, will check her works out. I am more into scifi than fantasy, especially hard sci-fi.