The world of vernacular science fiction

It's a little known fact that science fiction in regional Indian languages is quite a popular genre. There are writers in Bangla, Kannada, Tamil, Marathi etc who are writing science fiction stories and some of them are doing quite well too. I spoke with a cross-spectrum of vernacular sci-fi authors -- on the perils, challenges and opportunities that their craft entails. The following story resulted.

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