Description: India, Asia, Business and Everything
Back in 2018, my brother Gautam and I were thinking about some kind of award to commemorate my father. He was a wonderful person – an intellect, soft-spoken, broad-ranging in his thinking and values.
One of the things he did for us, his children, was to get us interested in reading, and it was he who introduced us to Science Fiction and Fantasy (now broadly known as Speculative Fiction). It’s remained our favorite genre, with its ability to generate new worlds of ideas.
So when the opportunity popped up to fund a grant to writers in and from South Asia who are working in this genre, we took it. The Speculative Literature Foundation accepts applications, assembles a jury, picks the winner, and makes the award. It’s called The SLF $1000 A.C. Bose Grant for South Asian Speculative Literature . Jointly with DesiLit, it gives $1000 to a South Asian / South Asian diaspora writer developing speculative fiction.