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FEATURING RT SAMUEL - South Asian literature has a long and prestigious reputation in the global literary world, bringing audiences the words of authors like Salman Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh, and Arundhati Roy. But, rarely do we see literature tackling South Asia and India’s biggest social issue: caste, and particularly anti-caste justice. Even rarer, for global audiences, is the prevalence of speculative fiction focusing on that topic. 

A newly published groundbreaking anthology aiming to change that, is described as a collection of “weird, fantastic, supernatural, Dalit futurist, and magical realist fiction by writers from South Asia and the diaspora.”

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