Exploring Indian Sci-Fi: A Review of Sadhna Shanker’s Continuum

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.

Getting Closer to Mars

On one hand AI is marching ahead with inroads into all aspects of human life, and on the other humans are marching ahead in their hope to move to other planets. Who or what will survive and where? The debates around these questions continue.

Twenty years of sequencing the Human genome…

Genomics is going to change the way disease is tackled. How soon that will be is very difficult to predict, because like most things in nature – the more we know, the more we realize there is much more to be know.

Knock of the future…

So where does this march of AI into our space lead us? How is AI going to change our society? These are important questions, that have no easy answer.

Latest review of Ascendance

My book Ascendance was reviewed in the premier journal ‘Indian Literature” of the Indian Academy of Letters, Sahitya Academy.

COVID19 – the loneliness epidemic

We are all in this together – across the globe, so where is the question of feeling lonely or isolated? The mantra to keep spirits up is remembering that the future was always uncertain and will always be so.

An insightful review…

Even by the end, you can’t guess how the two sides could resolve their differences, you know that you need to hold on tight and trust her imagination. Because the ending, when it comes, blows you away!