Writer, Strategist 🕊️🚀
Salik Shah is a writer, brand strategist, and systems thinker who designs civilizational narratives and frameworks at the intersection of culture, technology, and policy.
“I work with startups, VCs, and mission-driven organizations to develop scalable narratives and global brands.”
Projects
Building civilizational narratives, institutions, and frameworks that help people, communities, and nations think more clearly about technology, sovereignty, and long-term survival.
The Akhand Saga (WIP)
An epic work of speculative fiction that reframes India’s struggle against empire as a cosmic conflict spanning five eras of history.
Drawing from a decade of work in science fiction and fantasy, the series weaves documented history—the Bengal Famine of 1943, Partition, and beyond—with a radical metaphysical system where consciousness is a weapon and ancient myths are living history.
This is an unsparing interrogation of colonialism, resistance, and the generation-spanning war to build an Akhand Bharat—an unbroken India—against forces that seek to control not just territory, but memory, reality, and the future itself.
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Mithila Review (2015-)
The only international journal of science fiction and fantasy published from India.
Founded to decenter Anglophone futures and amplify voices from the Global South, Mithila Review has hosted conversations with Hugo and Nebula Award winners including Cixin Liu, Ken Liu, Lavie Tidhar, and others reshaping how humanity imagines its future.
The journal’s publications, interviews, and roundtables have been cited in academic and policy discussions on non-Western speculative traditions, and its special issues explore climate, AI, identities and borders.
Notebook
Science fiction to action.
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