by Salik Shah | Apr 1, 2016 | Editorials
When we registered the domain name for Mithila Review in late 2015, we didn’t really know what we were signing up for. We knew that there was a need for a SF publication in South Asia, but we didn’t know what was exactly required to address the vacuum. When the first...
by Salik Shah | Apr 1, 2016 | Interviews
Arkady Martine in conversation with Salik Shah: You describe yourself as a “peripatetic scholar-poet: constructed of equal parts SFF and Byzantine history.” Your characters seem to want to belong to the past. They are wanderers who always return “home” even when it is...
by Salik Shah | Apr 1, 2016 | Interviews
Indra Das in conversation with Salik Shah: What do you prefer: Kolkata or Calcutta? I have no preference. They’re ultimately not that different, and I kind of like that the city has two names; one for the past and one for the present. I tend to use Kolkata because...
by Salik Shah | Feb 28, 2016 | Interviews
A lawyer and programmer by profession, Ken Liu’s fiction has appeared in F&SF, Asimov’s, Analog, Strange Horizons, Lightspeed, and Clarkesworld, among other places, and won the Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy awards. He is also a frequent translator of fiction...
by Salik Shah | Feb 27, 2016 | Uncategorized
David S. Goyer’s realistic treatment of superheroes and their fictional universe in live-action films has spawned a lot of imitators. His previous works as a screenwriter, Dark City (1998) and Batman Begins (2005) remain epic feats on film. With Da Vinci’s Demons...
