Today we welcome novelist and filmmaker Samit Basu at 12pm SLT. His newest novel “Chosen Spirits” is set in near future [or as some call it “the thinly disguised present day madness of”] Delhi, features virtual worlds but no dystopian ducks as far as we can tell. However, Samit will appear in his chosen duck embodiment, perhaps because in the US of A it is National Rubber Ducky Day , he will talk craft, motivation in Covid times and we are especially thrilled to get a deeper insight into the Indian SciFi scene: the good, the bad and the challenging, not only in regards to interacting with the local publishing industry …

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