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What Tron: Ares reveals about our AI-driven future

November 15, 2025 1:47 pm

In Tron: Ares, big tech’s obsession with power, militarised AI, and human expendability merge into a cautionary vision of our future where empathy might be the last surviving code.

5 must-read sci-fi novels that made the leap to screen

August 22, 2025 12:21 pm

Dive into the intriguing world of sci-fi literature that questions reality and humanity.

Jurassic Park, Black Mirror, dire wolves: A foreshadowing worth revisiting

May 08, 2025 4:53 pm

In ‘Jurassic Park’, John Hammond says, ‘Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to ask if they should.’ Thirty years later, this has never been as pertinent as it is today

3 Body Problem teaser: Game of Thrones creators' new Netflix series promises an exhilarating ride

June 18, 2023 4:30 pm

Developed by David Benioff and DB Weiss, the creators of Game of Thrones, 3 Body Problem, based on Liu Cixin's acclaimed novel of the same name, is set to premiere on Netflix in January 2024.

'The first to go green will do the best afterwards': Kim Stanley Robinson

November 09, 2021 10:43 am

As the COP26 climate conference unfolds in Glasgow, award-winning writer Kim Stanley Robinson speaks of India’s potential to script an environmental regeneration

'The idea of a major war between Great Powers has worn off'

November 09, 2021 10:59 am

Philosopher Toby Ord’s new book, The Precipice, examines our power to collectively extinguish the human species

Does life resemble fiction? Here are some novels that dealt with a pandemic

April 13, 2020 6:47 pm

Over the years, there have been several novels on pandemics, be it Albert Camus' The Plague, which readers are rediscovering, or Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Love In The Time of Cholera. Here are some of them.

Isolation Words: Pandemics are the petri-dish for fiction

March 21, 2020 4:22 pm

A look at how the breakdown of bonds and the betrayal of bodies allow writers to take an X-ray of the body politic

Ravana was a spectacular king. He just fell for the wrong girl

October 28, 2019 10:50 am

The mists of mythology, history and conspiracy theories render him elusive. Yet, in Sri Lanka, the search for Ravana remains a quest for validation.

Tales of Future Past

June 29, 2019 12:07 am

Two ambitious, engaging anthologies that navigate the best that Indian science fiction has to offer

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