Essays & Articles

Issue 1 · Inaugural Issue — March 2016

Madhesh Through Magic Mirror: History and the Quest for 'Self' Bhushita Vasistha Issue 1 Celebrating the Language of the Margin Ajapa Sharma Issue 1 Art With Olivia Fraser Ajapa Sharma Issue 1 The Quest for Dignity and Justice in Speculative Fiction Salik Shah Issue 1 TV Series: Da Vinci’s Demons (2013-2015) Salik Shah Issue 1

Issue 2 · Subcontinental Speculations — April 2016

Blue-Shifted Futures Vajra Chandrasekera Issue 2 AfroSF Now: A Snapshot, Seven Novels and a Film Mark Bould Issue 2 Raqib Shaw and the Nostalgia for Paradise Ajapa Sharma Issue 2 A Plan to Survive Year Zero Salik Shah Issue 2

Issue 3 · Futures Across Borders — May 2016

Joshua Oppenheimer: Memories of Screams and Silence Niyati Bhat Issue 3 Theodora Goss: Writing My Mother's Ghosts Theodora Goss Issue 3 The Shortest Editorial Ever! Salik Shah Issue 3

Issue 4 · Monsoon Cosmologies — June 2016

Anil Menon: The Speculative Ramayana Anil Menon Issue 4 Turning the Lens to Asia Salik Shah Issue 4 Sami Ahmad Khan: A Maoist Caliphate Near India’s Borders? Science, Fiction and Geopolitics in 'Baramulla Bomber' Sami Ahmad Khan Issue 4

Issue 5-6 · The Asian SF Double Issue — July/August 2016

Notes on Indian Science Fiction: The Parallel Worlds of Jayant Narlikar and Vandana Singh Salik Shah Issue 5-6 Asian SF - Double Issue (July/August): Open to Submissions Through July 2016 Salik Shah Issue 5-6 Asian Science Fiction & Fantasy: The Essential Reading List (2016) Salik Shah Issue 5-6 Dreams & Delusions Salik Shah Issue 5-6 Isha Karki — “Even When We Go to the Stars”: The Burning Light in Mary Anne Mohanraj’s The Stars Change Universe Isha Karki Issue 5-6 Niyati Bhat — Unstoppable Women, Nightmarish Cities: Asian Horror Cinema Niyati Bhat Issue 5-6 Charles Tan: A Retrospective on Filipino-Chinese Speculative Fiction Charles Tan Issue 5-6 Mithila Review to be a Quarterly with Payment! Salik Shah Issue 5-6

Issue 7 · Cosmic Sociology — January–March 2017

A Brief Introduction to Chinese Science Fiction Regina Kanyu Wang Issue 7 A Binge-Reader’s Companion to Three-Body Trilogy Salik Shah Issue 7 Glimpses of the Evolving Beast: The Mumble Jumble of a Translator Shaoyan Hu Issue 7 Fidelity, Meaning, and Metadata: Observations of a New Translator Andy Dudak Issue 7 Heart of the Labyrinth: Myth as the Starting Point for Storytelling Priya Sharma Issue 7 Spectacular Worlds in Translation Salik Shah Issue 7

Issue 8 · Visual Arts Special — May 2017

Robots, Ghosts, and Dreams: Some Preoccupations of World SF Cordasco Issue 8 From the Ruins of the Quake Ashim Shakya Issue 8 Aliens with a Human Face: The Human-like Non-Humans of Doctor Who Urna Mukherjee Issue 8 An Indian Architecture Student's Art Journal Ashish Mathew Mammen Issue 8 Coming of Age In A Visual World Ajapa Sharma Issue 8

Issue 9 · New Cartographies — September 2017

Why another WOC Special? Isha Karki Issue 9

Issue 10 · Tenth Milestone Edition — September 2018

Futures Dreaming Sohail Inayatullah & Ivana Milojevic Issue 10 Goddess Sita Mutates Indian Mythology into Science Fiction: How Three Stories from Breaking the Bow Reinterpret the Ramayana Sami Ahmad Khan Issue 10 The Indian Space Programme: Human Space Flight Gurbir Singh Issue 10 Seasteading: This Isn’t Planet Earth Joe Quirk Issue 10 Editorial: An Interlude Ajapa Sharma Issue 10 How Medieval Science Fiction Fostered Rational Inquiries About Our World The Conversation Issue 10

Issue 11 · Borderline Realities — December 2018

Stories That Can Change the World, or The Mission Statement Salik Shah Issue 11

Issue 12 · Diaspora Currents — April 2019

How science fiction and fantasy can help us make sense of the world Ansell Issue 12 This Extraordinary Being Salik Shah Issue 12

Issue 13 · Planetary Entanglements — September 2019

Science Fiction Writings in Punjabi: The Contemporary Scenario D. P. Singh Issue 13 A World Without Hospitals Salik Shah Issue 13

Issue 14 · The Solitary Sky — June 2020

Life is Beautiful Salik Shah Issue 14

Issue 15 · Re-Emergence — December 2020

Meet the New Mithila Review Team! Salik Shah Issue 15 Aliens from the New World Ishita Singh Issue 15

Issue 16 · Planet Democracy — July 2022

Planet Democracy: Call for Submissions for a Hopepunk Issue of Mithila Review Salik Shah Issue 16 Hopepunk: When Hope Meets Action Salik Shah Issue 16