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Arnab Chakraborty
Arnab Chakraborty is a regular Scroll.in contributor
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‘Klara and the Sun’: Kazuo Ishiguro returns to old themes but adds technology-inspired twists
The Nobel laureate’s latest novel plays out in a world struggling with mortality, change and technological intervention.
Arnab Chakraborty
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Marlon James takes fantasy fiction as we know it and makes it breathtakingly new
‘Black Leopard, Red Wolf’ is no serene fantasy epic. It comes at you angrily.
Arnab Chakraborty
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Two stories lead India’s modern science-fiction charge into the sci-fi magazine Strange Horizons
The stories, by Kuzhali Manickavel and Shankar Gopalakrishnan. show us how Indian science-fiction goes well beyond mythology.
Arnab Chakraborty
Trending
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The real reason why Modi says what he does – Hindu India accepts it
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The Assam voter who no longer supports the BJP because of the CAA
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BJP’s street-fighters in coastal Karnataka want a share in power
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Lok Sabha polls: Ladakh MP rallies supporters after BJP drops him from candidate list
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For better or for worse? Shifts in gender norms in India – in 12 charts
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How similar was Neanderthal Man to Homo Sapiens? Novelist William Golding got there before science
‘The Inheritors’ is a superb example of what rigorous speculation and a sympathetic portrayal of the “other” can achieve through literature.
Arnab Chakraborty
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How reading Ursula K Le Guin changed my expectations from science-fiction (and dragons)
She didn’t join the dots for young readers. And she wrote about gender, sexuality and violence in ways we’re encountering now in real life.
Arnab Chakraborty
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Eight works of science fiction that present tyrants (not all of them human)
The dictator lording over a dystopia is a staple of SF, and these novels and stories show the possibilities.
Arnab Chakraborty
Video
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Watch: K-Pop singer Aoora sings in Assamese as he collaborates with Nilotpal Bora in a new folk song
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Watch Anu Malik and Sonu Nigam’s impromptu performance of ‘Main Hoon Na’ at Farah Khan’s home
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Watch: Doordarshan newsreader faints on live TV in Kolkata owing to severe heat
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Watch: Spice Girls sing ‘Stop’ as bandmates reunite to celebrate Victoria Beckham’s 50th birthday
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Watch: Over 350 ballerinas come together to break the world record for standing on tip toes
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What happens in cashless societies? Five answers from science fiction
If we don’t work for money, what might we be working for?
Arnab Chakraborty
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With these two novellas, China Miéville shows again why he is like no other writer
Argubaly, no well-known contemporary author has reinvented genre literature the way Miéville keeps doing.
Arnab Chakraborty
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JM Coetzee’s new novel asks a crucial question: When everyone’s the same, can a person be different?
‘The Schooldays of Jesus’ is the second in what now appears to be a series by the 2003 Nobel Laureate.
Arnab Chakraborty
The Reel
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Watch: In ‘The Big Cigar’, the Black Panther founder flees America through a fake movie
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‘Dil Dosti Dilemma’ review: A feelgood entertainer about young love and old ties
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In ‘Tahader Katha’, the many partitions endured by a freedom fighter
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Watch: Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman in ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ trailer
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Start the week with a film: A legend returns in ‘Bob Marley: One Love’
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The fiction of the $100-million search for ET and Earth-like planets
The discovery of an Earth-like planet and a new $100-million quest for extra-terrestrial intelligence shows life imitating sci-fi art.
Arnab Chakraborty
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Robot kills man: how Isaac Asimov dealt with this in his Robot series
The legendary three laws of robotics, expanded to four, were created to ensure protection and not annihilation of the human race.
Arnab Chakraborty