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)^[1], was a military thriller praised for its prescient story line that fictionalized the Maoist-Mujahideen nexus in the Indian Red corridor^[2]. Khan has been called "our own Robert Ludlum/Frederick Forsyth" by the Indian magazine Businessworld ^[3]. The debut thriller won a couple of awards.

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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 garnered generally positive popular reception.^{[citation needed]} It was the first novel to fictionalize the nexus between religious fundamentalism and political terrorism in India; Red Jihad dealt with the liaison between the jihadis and Naxalites in the Red corridor. The thriller won the "Muse India Young Writer (Runner-Up) Award" at the Hyderabad Literary Festival 2013^[4] 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]}

References

[1] *http://www.flipkart.com/red-jihad-battle-south-asia/p/itmdackagpfyhqs7

[2] ttp://policyresearchgroup.com/book_shelf/red_jihad_in_fiction.html

[3] ttp://www.businessworld.in/en/storypage/-/bw/the-story-of-a-rogue-missile/595030.37528/page/0

[4] ttp://www.museindia.com/newsview.asp?id=34

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