Interviews/events

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Interviews/events

Interviews/Profiles/Features/Events

At The Dragonfire Podcast discussing Jinn-Bot

On the Unstacked podcast

At the Clarion West website

Porter Square Books event (The City Inside) with Zen Cho for The City Inside (video, FB)

Subverse – ArcX podcast interview with Anjali Alappat

Instalive with Faye D’Souza for Verve

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Interview with Arley Sorg for Clarkesworld (The City Inside)

Den of Geek interview/feature

On The Wrath of The IOTians podcast: on Spotify and Apple

Lithub’s Voyage Into genre podcast with Drew Broussard

Mysterious Galaxy event with SB Divya (tech fails stop around the 6 min mark)

With Saad Z Hossein for Third Place Books

Interview with Misha Grifka for Ancillary Review of Books

Discussion about dystopia/multi-media/TCI on the Legendarium podcast

With Adrian M Gibson for SFFAddicts podcast

Interview with Paul Semel

Keen On podcast on LitHub

“It’s less speculative fiction and more caustic investigation of the times we live in. Set in an India just a decade from now, Chosen Spirits is about a world where technology and religious bigotry combine with near-total corporate control over the lives and bodies of citizens… a novel of ideas. There are so many conversations, sharply observed mannerisms, tics. It reads like a sci-fi social satire, a comedy of manners.” – +Interview in Mint

“An odd balm for nerves: an “anti-dystopian” book… uncomfortably close to reality… uncannily prophetic” +Interview in The Hindu Weekend

“It is a world where truths are curated and independent thought is under scrutiny. Science fiction elements have been tempered to comment on a future fraught with possibilities emerging from our current realities.. Incisive analysis of society and politics is at the heart of Chosen Spirits.” +Interview in Khaleej Times

“Even the things that feel radically different at first glance are, upon reflection, not so distant from us after all… Dissent and your rights will evaporate, ask too many questions and even your own family might ‘unperson’ you, a la Orwell.” – +Interview in FirstPost

“Chosen Spirits is not interested in being a flight of fantasy. The novel talks about issues that are critically important to us in present-day India and keeps reminding the reader that the past can’t be buried, no matter how much anyone tries.” +Interview in Dear Reader

“…look into the near future, with plenty of humour, aided by unflinchingly honest mirrors held up to India’s upper middle class.” – +Interview in The Hindu Metro Plus

“If we keep going the way we are, we’re bound to land in an algorithmic nightmare filled Hindu Rashtra. Maybe we could all use Samit Basu’s brilliant words as an antidote, a reminder of why we erupted into a full spring revolution.” – Essay in Six Impossible Things