Sadhna Shanker’s ‘Continuum: A Love Story’ offers a nuanced narrative set in a dating app startup. Blending science fiction with relatable themes, it explores gender dynamics and societal disparities. Shanker’s use of authentic Indian English enhances the realism, making her characters and setting compelling and relatable.
Category: fiction
Launch of Continuum
What makes Continuum so compelling is the way it blends diverse elements—mythology, science fiction, romance, and philosophy—into a single narrative.
My father – the railwayman
The senior most officer of their railway was with them, on the ground, to oversee the work, at great peril to himself and his wife. And I feel a lump rise in my throat. It is not a feeling of grief, but a deep and abiding sense of pride that moistens my eyes.
Launch of ‘Arohan’
‘Arohan’ is science fiction published in Hindi by Rajkamal Publications. It is the translation of the English ‘Ascendance’ brought out by Rupa Publications in 2018
Never a Disconnect – Audio book – 2
Never a disconnect is the story of single parenthood, female bonding and living life on your own terms.
Never a disconnect – audio book
Never A disconnect is a story of yearning, longing, despair and hope. Hear it now on the Storytel App
Guilt of the unfinished story
An unfinished story is like an incomplete dialogue that plays out in one’s head all the time. It is a self inflicted burden that only the writer can remove.
Latest review of Ascendance
My book Ascendance was reviewed in the premier journal ‘Indian Literature” of the Indian Academy of Letters, Sahitya Academy.
Space exploration and our day to day lives……
These leaps of human enquiry into the realm of space represent an audacity of hope and endeavour. They impact our day to day lives in myriad ways.
The parallels
Home is sanctuary parallel – one feels safe and comforted when one reaches there. However scanty and impoverished it maybe.’
themindprism - sadhna shanker 