E. Dawson Varughese is a Professor at Manipal Centre for Humanities, Manipal Academy Higher Education (MAHE) in Karnataka, India. She is the author of Reading New India (Bloomsbury, 2013), a seminal text in the field of Indian genre fiction in English. She is also the author of Visuality and Identity in Post-millennial Indian Graphic Narratives (2018) as well as several other monographs. She has published widely on New India and its literary and visual cultures both in internationally recognized journals and in edited volumes. She is also editor for The Routledge Companion to Indian Twenty-First Century Fiction in English.

• Foreword: Anil Menon, author of the speculative fiction novel Half of What I Say (2017)1: Post-millennial India and ideas of Indianness2: Speculative fiction in India 3: Speculative cities – walls, spaces and zones 4: Speculative bodies – clones, medicine and biotech 5: Speculative future histories – environment, technology and other worlds 6: Defining post-millennial Indian speculative fiction in English Bibliography Index

E. Dawson Varughese is a Professor at Manipal Centre for Humanities, Manipal Academy Higher Education (MAHE) in Karnataka, India. She is the author of Reading New India (Bloomsbury, 2013), a seminal text in the field of Indian genre fiction in English. She is also the author of Visuality and Identity in Post-millennial Indian Graphic Narratives (2018) as well as several other monographs. She has published widely on New India and its literary and visual cultures both in internationally recognized journals and in edited volumes. She is also editor for The Routledge Companion to Indian Twenty-First Century Fiction in English.

• Foreword: Anil Menon, author of the speculative fiction novel Half of What I Say (2017)1: Post-millennial India and ideas of Indianness2: Speculative fiction in India 3: Speculative cities – walls, spaces and zones 4: Speculative bodies – clones, medicine and biotech 5: Speculative future histories – environment, technology and other worlds 6: Defining post-millennial Indian speculative fiction in English Bibliography Index