Editorial

Dear Traveller, I hope this missive finds you well. Here’s s question: what kind of role does the speculative play in society today? In a world where we are constantly Read More

This issue of Tasavvur is a labor of love from our guest-editor M. Aurangzeb Ahmad I inherited my love of reading from my father, who was in the book business Read More

In winter 2022 we embarked on an ambitious idea–a magazine of South Asian Speculative Fiction. Each of us, in some way, had dreamt of this for a very long time Read More

Irrespective of how things unfold in the future, we can say with a lot of confidence that at least today, no Generative AI tools can match the creativity and ingenuity of the stories this issue includes.

We’re celebrating one year of Tasavvur. Join us as we look at the past, present, and future of Tasavvur.

I grew up wishing I could be Lyra Silvertongue. I wanted to be the girl with the tawny hair and vivid blue eyes, leaping across the roofs of Oxford, traveling Read More

What makes speculative fiction different from literary fiction? I came to Tasavvur as someone whose job it is to study “the canon” of literature in English. As I have read Read More

The world as we know it is coming apart at its seams. For many of us, this new normal is a thing which is here to stay, for perhaps the Read More