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26/09/2022

Mithila Review's issue has reached 50+ countries around the world: http://mithilareview.com

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14/09/2022

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11/08/2022

🇮🇳 We're in print! So excited to release a paperback edition of Mithila Review for the first time to a wider audience!

PLANET DEMOCRACY: Stories of Hope, Courage, Unity & Compassion is now available in India through Notion Press: https://notionpress.com/read/planet-democracy

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PS. The international paperback edition will be available from Amazon in a few days. Thank you so much for your patience, love, and support, as always!

10/08/2022

So, why ? Because it's a literature of resistance, which seeks to inspire compassionate thought and positive action. Because it says kindness and softness doesn’t equal weakness. "In this world of brutal cynicism and nihilism, being kind is [...] an act of rebellion." — Alexandra Rowland

https://mithilareview.com/shah_07_22/

A special edition of Mithila Review devoted to Hopepunk — a literature of resistance, which seeks to inspire compassionate thought and positive action.

10/08/2022

🌟NEW RELEASE: And we're back with a special edition of Mithila Review devoted to .

🌍 PLANET DEMOCRACY: Stories of Hope, Courage, Unity & Compassion

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Planet Democracy: Stories of Hope, Courage, Unity and CompassionFeaturing 12 powerful and award-winning voices from around the worldA special edition of Mithila Review devoted to Hopepunk — a literature of resistance, which seeks to inspire compassionate thought and positive action.Planet Democrac...

14/04/2022

Hope. Freedom. Democracy. Peace. Prosperity.

https://mithilareview.com/hopepunk/

Mithila Review is inviting submissions for a special global Hopepunk issue. Payment: USD $0.08 cents per word. Deadline: May 20th, 2022.

07/01/2022

In her latest Locus column, Karen Burnham recommends “Arisudan” by Rimi B. Chatterjee from Mithila Review Issue 15: "Probably a novelette or novella, this is a really thorough sketch of India and Southeast Asia in the future, from 2020-2048."

https://locusmag.com/2022/01/karen-burnham-reviews-short-fiction-lightspeed-mithila-review-common-tongues-and-bards-sages/

Lightspeed 10/21 Mithila Review 3/21 Common Tongue 8/21 Bards & Sages 10/21 October’s Lightspeed has plenty of stories with chewy premises to enjoy. “Stowaways” by Andrew Dana Hudson is a flash…

07/01/2022

Ankit Prasad on Sami Ahmad Khan’s Star Warriors of the Modern Raj: "If Suparno Banerjee isolated four aspects with which to understand Indian SF – epistemic base, time of unfolding, space of action, and characters’ identity – in Star Warriors, Khan has given us three more – materiality, mythology, and technology – with the additional promise of antekaal and neoMONSTERS possibly adding further critical axes to the discussion in the (hopefully near) future. The academic study of English-language Indian SF is certainly coming of age with works of this nature. There is much to be excited about, and younger scholars like me are being provided with a fantastic base to build upon."

https://mithilareview.com/prasad_01_22/

Star Warriors presents an example of the writing-alongside tradition in SF scholarship. No wonder then that one of the most exciting suggestions in the book pertains to locating SF within the realm of literature as a global phenomenon, while using metaphors (‘atman’) arising out of India’s ref...

08/12/2021

We are pleased to present to you The Mithila Review Show: a series of thought-provoking conversations with individuals working in the field of science fiction and fantasy. For the fifth episode, we chat with Manjula Padmanabhan, Saad Z. Hossain, Harris A. Durrani and Tarun Saint to map the complex contours of South Asian Science Fiction.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuZrlRktyTo&t=12s

Welcome to The Mithila Review Show: a series of thought-provoking conversations with authors and artists working in the field of science fiction and fantasy....

25/10/2021

"Regardless of geography and socio-political position the stories are written from, the stories hold true to Le Guin’s oft-quoted adage of all science fiction being descriptive and not predictive and that all fiction is metaphor. / And in the case of this anthology, we are talking of very thinly veiled metaphors. Le Guin may not have been able to find the words to say what she wanted to say non-metaphorically but here, one suspects its not the words but the freedom to do so non-metaphorically is what is perhaps non-existent.

It doesn’t take the reader long to wonder whether the conditions have deteriorated to the point where speaking anything at all – forget truth to power – can only be done via such means. This is not to take away the strong and well-realised world creation that shines through in a number of narratives in the anthology but it needs to be said these stories are as much or more so about the South Asia of our reality than its about future worlds."

https://scroll.in/article/1008434/does-this-anthology-of-striking-science-fiction-from-south-asia-talk-of-the-future-or-the-present

The Gollancz Books of South Asian Science Fiction Volume 2 goes well beyond traditional SF to embrace horror, fantasy, and climate fiction.

06/10/2021

"The sea lapping at my back and my face to the fire, I translate: poems, mostly. Now that entire languages and cultures are on the verge of being lost forever to the sea, the storms, the smog, the plagues, and the fires, now the art of the dead and the almost-dead have become quaintly valuable to a small but enthusiastic readership of the living. The wealthy and living, I should say, but are those not the same thing, now? " — Vajra Chandrasekera, Clarkesworld

https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/chandrasekera_05_20/

Subscribe to Clarkesworld and never miss an issue of our World Fantasy and Hugo Award-Winning Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine. This page: The Translator, at Low Tide by Vajra Chandrasekera

18/09/2021

Submissions Status: Dear authors, we're really sorry for the delay in processing submissions due to the recent pandemic and team restructuring. We hope to get back to you soon. Sorry again. And thank you for your love, patience and support as always. - Editors

10/09/2021

"Love is not something that happens to a person, but something a person does for another person, every day, every moment. A labor, not a feeling." - Peng Shepherd, The Future Library

A beautiful story inspired by https://futurelibrary.no

https://www.tor.com/2021/08/18/the-future-library-peng-shepherd/

More than a hundred years from now, an arborist fighting to save the last remaining forest on Earth discovers a secret about the trees—one that changes not only her life, but also the fate of our w…

22/08/2021

In Star Warriors of the Modern Raj, Sami Ahmad Khan takes the readers on "a rollercoaster tour of all the fabulous worlds we SF writers have been making in odd corners of the Indian literary scene." — Rimi B. Chatterjee

https://mithilareview.com/chatterjee_08_21

Rimi B. Chatterjee recommends Star Warriors of the Modern Raj to anyone who wants to know what the hell is going on with Indian Science Fiction.

08/08/2021

It's been 5 years since Salik Shah, our founding editor, curated this wonderful Essential Reading List of Asian Science Fiction and Fantasy. A lot has changed since then. Several new voices have emerged, and it's time to update. Let us know what your recommendations are!
https://mithilareview.com/asian_sf_2016/

Recommendations from Niall Harrison, Nisi Shawl, Jaymee Goh, Indra Das, Anil Menon & Others What are some of the most successful examples of Asian SF—speculative fiction by an Asian author or those with a meaningful connection with Asia? Based on recommendations by leading speculative authors

05/08/2021

Mithila Review has been a leading speculative fiction journal since its founding. We're committed to a vision of inclusive fiction, where all voices in our diverse community are heard and respected. Help us make that vision a reality. Please consider becoming a Mithila Review patron today!
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30/07/2021

"There is a narrow space between erasure and appropriation, and I try to walk in that space. If I'm only going to talk about people like me, then I'm throwing away the entire potential and the point of speculative fiction." - Vandana Singh

We are pleased to present to you the “The Mithila Review Show”: a series of thought-provoking conversations with individuals working in the field of science ...

30/07/2021

We're going live with Vandana Singh at 8 PM IST. You can watch it on Youtube here: https://youtu.be/AobxZRupuuU

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22/07/2021

For the fourth episode of The Mithila Review Show, we are in conversation with writer & physicist Vandana Singh. Join us on Zoom for an exciting discussion about speculative imagination, distant worlds, and dismantling old paradigms. Register here: https://bit.ly/MithilaEp4

16/07/2021

We are now live with Lavanya Lakshminarayan on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NG2WEyZbxbo

We are pleased to present to you the “The Mithila Review Show”: a series of thought-provoking conversations with individuals working in the field of science ...

13/07/2021

The Mithila Review Show is back! And this time, we are in conversation with Lavanya Lakshminarayan, award-winning speculative fiction author and game designer. Come join us in this discussion on Zoom this Friday, 7 pm. Register here: https://bit.ly/MithilaEp3

18/06/2021

For the second episode of "The Mithila Review Show", we’re in conversation with writer, editor and lawyer Gautam Bhatia about his debut novel The Wall, the horizons of SFF in South Asia and the futures of the genre for the 2nd episode of The MR Show. Join the conversation on Zoom by registering here: http://bit.ly/MithilaEp2

Date: 18 June 2021, Friday
Time: 5:30 PM IST

16/06/2021

We are pleased to present to you the “The Mithila Review Show”: a series of thought-provoking conversations with individuals working in the field of science fiction and fantasy.
In our first episode, Zen Cho chats with Tejaswi Rawal about her latest book Black Water Sister, about non-English languages in fantasy, history and macaroons!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3xfKvkWLzQ

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02/04/2021

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