Half of What I Say

By Anil Menon

2015

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Is there is any work of fiction that the world absolutely cannot do without? In fact, do we need fiction at all? Half of What I Say offers a story to answer this. The anti-corruption movement in India has resulted in an important institution called the Lokshakti. Vyas, the Director of the Lokshakti’s Cultural Affairs department, is obsessed with tracking down Ajaya, an obscure banned movie by the late Durga Dhasal, an academic and popular politician killed at the hands of a Lokshakti-controlled mob. Vyas, a long-time admirer of the film-maker, had not only sent Dhasal his unpublished and eponymous novel but learns that Dhasal’s Ajaya has the same basic Ramayana-inspired theme, namely, the havoc a long separation wreaks on a loving couple.

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Anil Menon

Author · 5 books

Anil Menon is a leading Indian writer of speculative fiction, as well as a computer scientist with a Ph.D. from Syracuse University, who has authored research papers and edited books on Evolutionary Algorithms; his research addressed the mathematical foundations of replicator systems, majorization, and reconstruction of probabilistic databases, in collaboration with Professors Kishan Mehrotra, Chilukuri Mohan, and Sanjay Ranka. After working for several years as a computer scientist, he has directed his creative energies towards fiction. His short stories and reviews have appeared in the anthology series Exotic Gothic, Strange Horizons, Interzone, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, Chiaroscuro, Sybil's Garage, Apex Digest and other magazines. In 2009, Zubaan Books, India's leading feminist press, published his debut young adult novel The Beast With Nine Billion Feet. It was shortlisted for the 2010 Vodafone Crossword Book Award and 2010 Parallax prize. In 2009, in conjunction with Vandana Singh and Suchitra Mathur, he helped organize India's first in-residence, three-week speculative fiction workshop at IIT-Kanpur. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anil\_Menon