Indofuturism

Names

• Indofuturism
• Indofuturisms
• Can overlap with Desifuturism(s)
• Can overlap with South Asian Futurism(s) and others
• Can overlap with Indigenous Futurisms, including Adivasi Futurism, Dalit Futurism, Tamil Futurism and others

Artists and Creators

• Kai (Kari) Altmann aka Hitashya (US-IN)
• Antariskha Studio (Srinivasa Ramanujan and Jayalakshmi Eshwar) (IN)
• Prateek Arora (IN)
• Maya Arulpragasam aka MIA (SL-UK-IN)
• Nag Aswhin (IN)
• Bloni Atelier (Akshat Bansal) (UK-IN)
• Samit Basu
• Priya Sarukkai Chabria (IN)
• Vimal Chandran (IN)
• Sujoy Ghosh (IN)
• Omar Gilani (PK-UK)
• Harshdeep Singh Gill (IN)
• Varun Gupta (IN)
• Akanskha Jain (IN)
• Karan Kanchan (IN)
• Sam Madhu (IN-DE)
• Kiran Manral
• Sejal Mehta
• Hridaye A Nagpal (IN)
• Vishwa Nirmaan
• The Otolith Group (Anjalika Sagar and Kodwo Eshun) (UK)
• Manjula Padmanabhan (IN)
• Begum Rokeya
• Svetha Yallapragada Rao aka Raja Kumari (US-IN)
• Vandana Shiva (IN)
• Vandana Singh
• Osheen Siva
• Shilo Shiv Suleman (IN)
• Shweta Taneja
• Shveta Thakrar
• Krishna Udayasankar
• Sukanya Venkatraghavan

Curators and Theorists

• Priyanka Bandodkar (CAN)
• Saddaf Padder (US)
• Hina Siddiqui
• Priteegandha Naik

Events

• KALAK, Roundhouse London, March 10-12 2023. Curated by Sarathy Kolwar.
• ElsewhereinIndia, Roundhouse London, April 7-8 2023.
• "The Endless Mind", performance by Vyuti Dance Company, G5A, Mumbai, April 11-16 2023.
• COSMOS Residency and Showcase, Goa, India, Nov 2023.

Discussions and Panels

• "Magical Women and the Blossoming of Indian Speculative Fiction", Bangalore International Centre, June 21 2019. Speakers: Sukanya Venkatraghavan, Shreya Ila Anasuya, Samhita Arni, T. Gautham Shenoy.
• "South Asian Science Fiction: Tarun K. Saint, Vandana Singh and Manjula Padmanabhan in conversation with Arunava Sinha", Jaipur Lit Fest, Jaipur India, 2022.
• "XLE.LIFE presents XLE.LIVE: #Indofuturism? #Desifuturism?", XLE.LIFE, Online, Mumbai, Zurich, April 2023. Speakers: Kai (Kari) Altmann, Prateek Arora, Naveen Shamsudhin. Curated and Moderated by Kai (Kari) Altmann.

Films, Short Films and Series

• Leila, Netflix India, 2019. Based on the book by Prayaag Akbar. Directed by Deepa Mehta. Hindi.
• Kalki 2898 AD, Vyjayantha Movies, 2024. Directed by Nag Ashwin. Telugu and Hindi.

Publications

Books

• Raminder Kaur, Saif Eqbal, Adventure Comics and Youth Cultures in India, Routledge India, Oct 2018, 240 pp. Publisher.

• Sukanya Venkatraghavan (ed.), Magical Women, Hachette India, April 25 2019, 240pp. English. Works by Asma Kazi, Kiran Manral, Krishna Udayasankar, Nikita Deshpande, Ruchika Roy, Samhita Arni, Sejal Mehta, Shreya Ila Anasuya, Shveta Thakrar, Shweta Taneja , Sujatha S.V., Sukanya Venkatraghavan, Tashan Mehta, Trisha Das.

• Tarun K. Saint (ed.), The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction, Hachette India, 2019, 424pp. Works by Adrish Bardhan, Anil Menon, Arjun Rajendran, Arunava Sinha, Asif Farrukhi, C.M. Naim, Chandrashekhar Sastry, Clark Prasad, Giti Chandra, Harishankar Parsai, Kaiser Haq, Keki N. Daruwalla, Manjula Padmanabhan, Maya Joshi, Mimi Mondal, Mohammad Salman, Muhammed Zafar Iqbal, Nur Nasreen Ibrahim, Payal Dhar, Premendra Mitra, Priya Sarukkai Chabria, Rahul Sankrityayan, Rimi B. Chatterjee, Rukmini Bhaya Nair, S.B. Divya, Sami Ahmad Khan, Shovon Chowdhury, Somendra Singh Kharola, Sumita Sharma, Syed Saeed Naqvi, Tarun K. Saint, Vandana Singh.

• Tarun K. Saint, Francesco Verso (ed.), Avatar अवतार: Indian Science Fiction, 2020, English and Italian, 312pp. Works by Vandana Singh, S.B. Divya, Anil Menon, Manjula Padmanabhan, Shikhandin, Giti Chandra, Shovon Chowdhury, Priya Sarukkai Chabria.

• Tarun K. Saint (ed.), The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction Volume 2, Hachette India, Sept 30 2021, 488pp. Works by Manjula Padmanabhan, Tarun K. Saint, Shiv Ramdas, Medha Singh, Tashan Mehta, Muhammad Zafar Iqbal, Vajra Chandrasekera, Senaa Ahmad, Arjun Raj Gaind, Jayaprakash Satyamurthy, Soham Guha, Lavanya Lakshminarayan, Kehkashan Khalid, Bina Shah, Anil Menon, Aparna Ramachandran, Jayant V. Narlikar, Vandana Singh, Gautam Bhatia, Kaiser Haq, Kalsang Yangzom, Gita Chandra, Haris A. Durrani, Usman T. Malik, Salik Shah, Yudhanjaya Wijeratne, Priya Sarukkai Chabria, Sami Ahmad Khan, Shovon Chowdhury, Sukanya Datta, Premee Mohammad, Naveen Weeraratne, Saad Z. Hossain.

• Shweta Khilnani, Ritwick Bhattacharjee (Eds.), Science Fiction in India: Parallel Worlds and Postcolonial Paradigms, Bloomsbury India, May 30 2022.

• Taryne Jade Taylor, Isiah Lavender III, Grace L. Dillon, Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of CoFuturisms, Routledge, Oct 2023, 716 pp. Publisher.

Magazines, Journals, Blogs

• Srinivasa Ramanujan & Jayalakshmi Eshwar, Antariksha Studio, Facebook, 2019-present.
• Srinivasa Ramanujan & Jayalakshmi Eshwar, ElsewhereinIndia, Instagram, 2020-present.
• Priya Bandodkar (ed.), Indofuturism, Wordpress, 2020-2021.
• Prateek Arora (ed.), R/Indofuturism, Reddit, 2022-present.

Videos, Podcasts, Radio

• Priyanka Bandodkar, "Indofuturist Manifesto", Vimeo, 2021.
• "Artists – 4/x – Vimal Chandran – Indofuturism pioneer", Floorisrising.com, Nov 11, 2021.

Essays, Articles, Book Chapters

• Pravin Pallay, "Consciousness as a Site of Subversion: Rupturing Rational Process and Linearity through Indofuturism", 2005.
• Ryan A D'Souza, "Imagining a Desi Future", South Asian Popular Culture, vol. 17, no.1, Apr 2 2019, pp. 47-59.
• TG Shenoy, "SpecFix: Here’s to the fabulous, magical women of Indian sci-fi", Bangalore Mirror, March 6 2020.
• Priteegandha Naik, "Dalit-futurist Feminism: New Alliances through Dalit Feminism and Indian Science Fiction", Journal of International Womens' Studies, Volume 22, Issue 10, Casteing Gender: Intersectional Oppression of Dalit women, Bridgewater State University, Oct 2021.
• Rishi Alwani, "What Is Indo-Futurism and Why It Matters for Indus Battle Royale, India, and even You", Indusgame.com, June 24, 2022.
• Akshay Patel, Robi John, "How SuperGaming is Bringing ‘Indo-Futurism’ to Life with Indus Battle Royale", IGN India, Aug 1, 2022.
• Bhuvana Sekar, "Exploring Indo-futurism through contemporary design culture", Aalto University, Medium, Oct 17, 2022.
• Nida Naeem, "Future Frontiers: AI Artists On The Rise Of Indofuturism", Grazia India, Jan 18, 2023.
• Nyshka Chandran, "An Unapologetically Indian universe", BBC.com, Jan 24, 2023.
• "Exploring the Aesthetics of Indo-Futurism: Blending Tradition and Speculation in the Age of AI", Saashed.com, 2023.
• Hina Siddiqui, "Cultural Futurism: Possibilities, Probabilities and Potential", Art Now Thus, May 29 2023.
• Shilajit Mitra, "‘Kalki 2898 AD’ first glimpse: Prabhas, Deepika Padukone battle a dark dystopia", TheHindu.com, July 21, 2023.
• Srijandeep Das, "Indofuturist Sanctuary: A COSMOS Goa Residency Recap", Le Guess Who, Nov 24, 2023.
• Kai (Kari) Altmann, "XLE.LIFE: New Terms 2024: #Indofuturism(s) and #Desifuturism(s)", XLE.LIFE, March 2024.
  • Kai (Kari) Altmann, "XLE.LIFE: New Terms 2024: #Indofuturism(s) and #Desifuturism(s)", Medium, July 08 2024.
• Uttaran Das Gupta, "Indian sci-fi: weird and wonderful", Hindustan Times, April 9 2024.

Theses

• Priya Bandodkar, "Activating Indofuturism: Applying a lens adapted from Afro-and-Indigenous Futurism", OCAD University, Toronto, 2021. Masters Thesis.

See Also

Futurisms, Desifuturism, South Asian Futurisms, Indigenous Futurism, Adivasi Futurism, Global South Futurisms, Third Culture, Post Western, Tropical Futurism, Afrofuturism, Africanfuturism, Decolonization, AI, Sci-Fi