Sami A. Khan

Sami Ahmad Khan (born 16th July 1985) is a Delhi-based, award-winning 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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Sami A. Khan (Author)

Background

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 (2012, Rupa & Co.): a political/military thriller that received generally positive critical and popular reception.^{[citation needed]} It is first novel to fictionalize and speculate on the unholy nexus between religious fundamentalism and political terrorism in India.^{[citation needed]} The novel was praised as being path-breaking^{[citation needed]} 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^{[citation needed]} and "Excellence in Youth Fiction Writing" at Delhi World Book Fair.^{[citation needed]}

Khan is now working on his second book, a Science-Fiction sequel to Red Jihad, that is themed around Time-Travel and Alternate History.^{[citation needed]}

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