Description of Indian SF.

1. Dr. Srinarahari
Secretary - General
Indian Association for Science Fiction Studies®.
Bangalore, Karnataka, India

2. < Jayanth V Narlikar
Bal Phondke >
Laxman Londhe
>

3. L-R Together- Rajashekhar Bhoosnurmutt (Kannada), &
Arvind Mishra (Hindi); Devendra Mewari (Hindi); Dinesh
Chandra Goswami (Assamese); Gokulananda Mahapatra
(Oriya).

4. Sujatha Rangarajan (Tamil);
KRK Mohan (Telugu);
Rekha Baijal (Marathi).

6.  Anil Menon, Anupam Bhattacharya, Archana
Mirajkar, Arvind Mishra, Arvind Risbud, Arya
Madan Mohan, Ashok Banker, Balaji Navale,
Bharathi Ramachandran, Bhushan Kapoor, Dilip
Salwe, Dip Ghosh, G.P.Phondke, Harish Goyal,
Harshita Verma, HS Bairnatti, Jayanth V. Narlikar,
Kalpana Kulshrestha, Kenneth Doyle, KRK Mohan,
Laxman Londhe, Meyhna Sujata Mitra, Mukul
Sharma, Nellai S Muthu,

7.  Niranjan Gagte, R.N.Sharma, Radha Ganguli,
Rajashekhara Bhoosanoor Mutt, Rajat Choudhury,
Ramesh Deshponde, Rishab Dubey, RR Upadhyaya,
Salik Shah, Salil Chowdhary, Sami Ahmed Khan,
Sanjay Havanoor, Sathyajit Ray, Shalini Tuli,,
Sourabh Bhattacharya, Srinarahari, Subodh
Jawadekar, Sukanya Dutta, Surekha Nagar, Surekha,
and others. Ashish Mahabal, Divyaraj Amiya, Hari
Kumar Nair, Reema Sarwal, Shwetha Taneja,
Superno Banerjee and Vandana Singh contribute for
the genre from outside the Country.

8. Themes dealt in the past 18 ISF conf
organized by IASFS
Artificial Intelligence, Cinema and SF, "Science Fiction Film :
Seventy Years of Synergy, 1926 to 2003", A Tribute to Kalpana
Chowilla, Fantasy, Genetic Engineering, Hindi SF, Indian
Responses to World SF, Indian SF in Vernacular languages,
Literary Criticism on Indian SF, Myth, Fantasy, Popular Science,
Genetic Engineering, Robotics, Information Technology,
Nanotechnology, Print versus Visual SF, Science in Science
Fiction, Time travel, Robotics, Science Fiction Today, Science of
Tomorrow, SF and Mainstream Fiction, SF Narration, SF the
Human Aspect, Women in Science Fiction, Science Fiction
Criticism and theory, Interdisciplinary and Multidisciplinary
aspects of SF, and others.

9.  Indian Science Fiction Writers’ Association in Ayodhya, UP, &
Mithila Journal from Delhi, Indian Science Fiction Readers’ Forum
in the North
 Kalpabiswas Kalpabignyan at Kolkata in the East
 Sci-Fi Katta in Maharashtra in the West
 IASFS in the South are providing platforms for the making of
Indian Science Fiction (NEWS).
 Vandana Singh, Hari Kumar Nair, Ashish Mahabal, Shwetha
Taneja, Rajat Choudhury, Divyaraj Amiya, Reema Sarwal & others
are contributing to Indian Science fiction from outside the country.

10. Shaktiman Serial

12. Best Indian Sci fi movies

15. Adithya
(Telugu)
Sathyajith Ray
Bengali-
Professor
Shonku

16. Hollywood
Kannada
2002
Makalu Rajya in Kannada (1960)
directed by B.R.Panthalu

17. Athisayan (2007)
(become
Invisible)
Bharathan Effect (2007)
(Anti-gravity)

19.  Most of the films didn't find much
success at the box-office in the past.
 Rajani Kant’s 2.0 in multiple languages
breaks all time record.
 This is one of the SF movies in which
there is no romance.

20. Science Fiction Promoting States in India
Assam, West Bengal, Bihar, Delhi,
Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab,
Jammu & Kashmir, Maharashtra, Orissa,
Goa, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu,
Andhra Pradesh, Kerala

22. Science Fiction Promoting Universities, Colleges,
Organizations and Places
in India
Jaipur, Delhi, Faridabad, Kanpur,
Ayodhya, Bilaspur, Bhubaneshwar,
Kolkata, Nagpur, Aurangabad, Mumbai,
Pune, Hyderabad, Dharwar, Panaji,
Bangalore, Vellore, Chennai,
Pondicherry, Coimbatore, Gandhinagar,
Trichy, Madurai, Kasargod, Kaaladi,
Kochi, Trivendrum,

24. Dissertations and Theses on Isaac Asimov by Indian
Scholars:
Prakash S. Rao’s "Isaac Asimov's Works of 60's and 70's: A
Study in Scientific Humanism". M.Phil Thesis. (Hyderabad:
Osmania U), 1982; Veena’s "Paradoxes of Order in the
Fiction of Isaac Asimov". M.Phil Thesis. (Hyderabad:
Osmania U), 1982; S.Guruswamy’s "Asimov's Vision of
Utopia in Foundation's Edge and Foundation and Earth."
M.Phil Thesis, (Thiruchirapalli: Bharathidasan U), 1989;
Fiat Homo- Let There be Man – Apocalyptic Renewal in
Asimov’s Foundation Series” (1992) by
K.S.Purushothaman; Srinarahari’s “The Robotistic Works of
Isaac Asimov: A Study” and Panneer Selvam’s “Credibility
Criterion in Asimov’s Foundation Trilogy” (1997).

25. It is universally acknowledged that Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
(1818) is the pioneer work of Science Fiction. England has given
a number of classic SF works which are often termed as
highlighting “Frankenstein Complex”.
The genre grew with Jules Verne and also with Carl Capek’s RUR
in other countries. However, with the able editors like Hugo
Gernsback and WH Campbell, the prolific writers like Asimov,
Heinlein, Robert Silverberg, Ursula Le Guin, and others the SF
works found further growth in the USA.
Presently, during the Asian Science Fiction meet at Chengdu,
China, many prominent world writers like Robert Sawyer
observe that there is wane of the West and Raise of the East
with Chinese Liu Cixin’s Three Body Problem.

26. Like SF writers of the Great Britain, Indians too had no
editors to streamline the SF writing in the country. The
writers found their own role models in the field.
Today, we the writers are united through the social
media. Every minute there would be updating the
knowledge and interaction,

27. Breakthroughs in ISF
Myth- proto – SF; Frankenstein Complex – impact of the
British SF- Karl Capek – RUR – Czeck – robots were
created and then in turn they killed its maker.
American SF brought hope and positivism.
Soft SF involved in the combination of many other
aspects of Science, Art, culture, - psychology and others
Colonization, Robotics, time travel stories occupied the
first place in ISF
Presently, on climate, butterfly effect, politics,
economics, technologies, hardcore SF
Artificial Intelligence , Aliens are the theme in the
present ISF.
Women detectives have come to the forefront.

30. Dr.Srinarahari
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