Sami A. Khan
Sami Ahmad Khan (born 16th July 1985) is a Delhi-based Indian Author. His first novel, Red Jihad: Battle for South Asia (Rupa & Co., 2012), was a military thriller praised for its prescient story line that fictionalized the Maoist-Mujahideen nexus in the Indian Red Corridor. Sami won a couple of awards for this debut novel.
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Background: Sami A. Khan read Literature at Hindu College and Rajdhani College, University of Delhi. He completed his master’s in English at Jawaharlal Nehru University and then went to The University of Iowa, USA, on a Fulbright grant. He has engaged in film production, teaching, theatre and writing. His short stories, plays and articles have been published in magazines and academic journals. Currently, Sami is a Doctoral Candidate at JNU, where he is working on SF and Techno-culture Studies.
Works: Red Jihad: Battle for South Asia is a 2012 political/military thriller (novel) by Sami Ahmad Khan. The novel was published by Rupa & Co. and released in June 2012 to a generally positive critical and popular reception. It is one of the few novels that pertain to military fiction from an Indian perspective Indian military fiction, and the first to fictionalize and speculate on the unholy nexus between religious fundamentalismJihadism and political terrorism (naxalism)Naxalite in India. The novel was praised as being path-breaking as it predicted the liaison between the jihadis and Maoists in the Red corridor. Red Jihad won the "Muse India Young Writer (Runner-Up) Award" at the Hyderabad Literary Festival 2013 and "Excellence in Youth Fiction Writing" at Delhi World Book Fair.
Sami is now working on his second book, a Science-Fiction sequel to Red Jihad, that is themed around Time-Travel and Alternate History.