Ha ha - I actually like regional flavors. Having lived all over India, I
have a lot of respect for local issues. Then there is language barrier -
someone who grew up with Malayalam will probably be less familiar with
Hindi authors.

I recall Zeashanji's notes from your Benaras meet. His discomfort with
South Indian room partners, & a few jokes about the situation. He's not
alone. This discomfort exists all over India - except in very
cosmopolitan environments.

Arvind Mishra wrote:
> Thanks a lot Tinkoo for sharing this nice piece on Indian sf.
> But have you noticed that any writing on Indian sf or referring to
> Indian sf is not without the regional bias -If Anil Menon writes on
> Indian sf refereces are bound to come from Tamil /Malyalam /Telgu belt
> or when some Bengali Babu Moshay like this gentlemn tries on it its all
> about Bengla sf/f and if Maratha ventures in to it he is all praise for
> Narlikar and like .
>
> Its a deep anguish and agony then that we have still not come out from
> aur regional baises .To some extent it looks fine ,natural and
> understandable also but blowing this trumpet all the time really hurts
> ! Cant we try to focuss on a holistic vision on the development and
> promotion of what we call Indian SF/F?
>
> How do you view this ?
> arvind mishra
>
> --- On *Sun, 7/6/09, tinkoo /<tinkoo420@yahoo. co.in>/* wrote:
>
>
> From: tinkoo <tinkoo420@yahoo. co.in>
> Subject: [indianscienceficti on] An overview of Indian sf by Mihir
> Wanchoo
> To: indiansciencefictio n@yahoogroups. co.in
> Date: Sunday, 7 June, 2009, 6:45 PM
>
> <http://fantasybookc ritic.blogspot. com/2009/ 05/overview-
> of-indian- speculative- fiction.html
>
<http://fantasybookcritic.blogspot.com/2009/05/overview-of-indian-speculative-fi\
ction.html>>

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