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- 1. 16th National Conference on Science Fiction Indian Association for Science Fiction Studies A Report Dr.Srinarahari
- 2. The Beginning It is a matter of great pleasure to bring on record that in 1988, the magazine 2001 from New Delhi had an interview with Isaac Asimov via satellite . This event was carried out by the team work of Mukul Sharma (editor,2001), Chandan Mitra (coordinator), and The Times of India Asst Editor Jug Suraiya.
- 3. II Wave I presume that this is the beginning of the II wave of the World Science Fiction movement in India Exactly a decade later, Indian Association for Science Fiction Studies was established on Asimovs birthday. The year marks the completion of a century of the publication of Agosh by J.C. Bose.
- 4. IASFS IASFS was established on January 2, 1998. Since then it has been promoting research work in the field of Indian SF. So far, the Association has organized 12 National and 3 International Conferences. They were held at Chennai, Coimbatore, Gandhigram, and Vellore in Tamil Nadu, Bangalore,Mysore & Yellahatti in Karnataka, Varanasi in UP, Aurangabad and Pune in Maharashtra States, Kochi in Kerala state as well as at Pondichery.
- 5. International Conferences Indian Association for Science Fiction Studies had organized International Conferences consecutively for three times in collaboration with the Departments of English at Bharatiar University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, Yeshwant Mohite College, Pune, Maharashtra, and St. Teresas College, Kochi, Kerala
- 6. Themes A few themes dealt in the previous conferences are Artificial Intelligence, Cinema and SF, Fantasy, Genetic Engineering, Hindi SF, Indian Responses to World SF, Indian SF in Vernacular languages, Literary Criticism on Indian SF,
- 7. SF Writing Workshop IASFS had arranged an SF Story Writing Workshop conducted by Eric Miller and story reading session by respective SF writers. Apart from arranging a video interactive conference with the Scientists and SF writers in India, a video conference was also established with Professor James Gunn of Kansas, USA.
- 8. IJSFS The association is bringing out biannual Indian Journal of Science Fiction Studies. It has been publishing Scholarly Articles, Short Stories and also the Papers read at the conferences.
- 9. SF in Villages! India is a land of villages. In order to encourage intellectual growth among the villagers and youth and to provide an SF ambience, IASFS has moved to Yellatti a rural place in India to introduce and to popularize SF to the rural students and enthusiastic young people.
- 10. 15th SF Conference at Yellahatti, Karnataka Mukesh Khanna, Nagabharana, Bhoosnurmutt,Bhelkar,Mallikarjun Patil and others.
- 11. Our Backbone
- 12. National Science Fiction Conference held at Elphinstone College, Mumbai February 10 &11, 2015 Keynote address
- 13. Interaction with participants and organizers.
- 14. IASFS Vice President Bhoosnurmutt (77) passed away. He had produced more than 50 SF works.
- 15. Attempts to hold the Conference 1. We had anticipated that Dhanwate National College, Nagpur, Maharashtra would organize the 16th SF conference. 2. Raj Kumar Goel Institute of Technology, Gaziabad would organize the conference. 3.Department of English, Pondicherry University had considered deeply about the proposed conference but could hold a conference with much financial crunch during September 2016. 4.Bengali Science Fiction fans have consented to hold the conference but they require an year's time. We shall wait for the day and we shall all give our hearty support to them in organizing the same.
- 16. SF: Indian Scenario Dr. Ashish Mahabal's Marathi writing has continued and three sci-fi short stories have appeared in Diwali 2016 issues. Since January 2016 Supriyo Das & Dip Ghosh ave undertaken a project of publishing the first ever Science Fiction & Fantasy themed Web-Magazine in Bengali. Visit: www.kalpabiswa.com. Dr. Arvind Mishra had initiated to hold SF workshops in Hindi in UP. Matteo Primiterra is an Italian Film Maker. Presently he is Assam. We are proud to state that IASFS is helping him to provide the details about the Indian Science Fiction.
- 17. Further, Departments of Media Studies, Anthropology, and Emperical Studies of University of Tuebingen, Germany had organized a conference on Contesting Images of Future of India during February 2016 at the University campus in Germany. Dr.Vandana Singh the SF writer had given the Keynote address. Sami Ahmed Khan has edited an online magazine Muse India which came out with a special feature on "Indian Science Fiction" in the May-June 2015 issue. Creative and critical SF works (literary articles, commentaries, short- stories, poetry, book-reviews, artwork, anything else pertaining to Indian SF) were all included.
- 18. Dr. Zeashan Heider Zaidi Awarded the Best SF writer by Print Media Working Association on 10.02. 2017.
- 19. First Asian Science Fiction Conference A private company in China has proposed to hold the first Asian Science Fiction Conference in China during Spring 2018. They have approached me for some details. We have to wait for the details.