Shiv Ramdas Explained

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Shiv Ramdas is an Indian writer of science fiction, humour, fantasy and horror.

His dystopian cyberpunk novel Domeсhild was published by Penguin India in 2013.[1]

His short story "And Now His Lordship Is Laughing", published in 2019 in Strange Horizons, is set during the Bengal famine of 1943.[2] It was nominated for both the 2020 Hugo Award for Best Short Story and the 2020 Nebula Award for Best Short Story.[3] He is one of only two Indian writers to be nominated for both a Hugo Award and a Nebula Award in the same year.[4]

He is a graduate of the Clarion West Writers Workshop.

A Twitter thread by Ramdas regarding the accidental ordering of a lorry full of rice by his brother-in-law went viral in 2020.[5] [6] [7] [8] [9]

Notes and References

  1. Narayan . Shyamala A. . December 2014 . India . The Journal of Commonwealth Literature . en . 49 . 4 . 535–567 . 10.1177/0021989414553750 . 0021-9894.
  2. Web site: July 30, 2020. Hugo Spotlight: The Finalists for Best Short Story and Best Novelette. September 4, 2020. Tor.com. en-US. Macmillan.
  3. Web site: Liptak. Andrew. May 31, 2020. Announcing the 2019 Nebula Awards Winners!. September 4, 2020. Tor.com. en-US. Macmillan.
  4. Web site: About . Shiv Ramdas. September 4, 2020. en-US.
  5. Web site: Rice, Truck and Rum: Indian Man's Hilarious Twitter Thread on Bulk Buying Gone Wrong is Pure Gold. September 4, 2020. News18. September 4, 2020.
  6. Web site: Medha . Chawla . Man orders truck of rice to avoid going out every day. What happened next is now a viral Twitter thread. September 4, 2020. India Today. en. September 4, 2020 .
  7. Web site: September 4, 2020. A Twitter thread on a man's bulk buying of rice gone wrong has netizens in splits. September 4, 2020. The Indian Express. en.
  8. Web site: Too Much Rice And An Angry Wife In Viral Saga Of Bulk Buying Gone Wrong. September 4, 2020. NDTV.com.
  9. Web site: September 4, 2020. Man's Hilarious Thread How Bulk-Buying Led To Rice-Filled Truck Ending Up In Front Of His House. September 4, 2020. IndiaTimes. en-IN.

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