Un manifeste spéculatif? [French translation] (2016) in the collection The Woman Who Thought She Was a Planet, and its French translation. Featured in English: A Speculative Manifesto (2008)

Columns for Strange Horizons Ezine:
• Diffractions: Sleepwalking Toward Calamity: The 2011 Climate Conference in Durban,South Africa (2012)
• Diffractions: Soil, Water, and Pure Air (2011)
• Diffractions: Rewilding the World (2011)
• Living with the Other: Animals, the City, and the Future (2011)
• Diffractions: On Science, Emotions, and Culture (Part 1) (2011)
• Diffractions: On Science, Emotions and Culture, (Part 2) (2011)
• Diffractions: Science, Emotions, and Culture, (Part 3) (2011)

More from Strange Horizons Ezine
• The Unthinkability of Climate Change: Thoughts on Amitav Ghosh’s The Great Derangement (2017)

• The Strange Horizons Book Club Part 1: Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke (2015)
with Karen Burnham and Vajra Chandrasekera and Martin McGrath and Ethan Robinson

• The Strange Horizons Book Club Part 2: Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke (2015)
with Karen Burnham and Vajra Chandrasekera and Martin McGrath and Ethan Robinson

• Alternate Visions: Some Musings on Diversity in SF (2015)

• Introduction to “Runaway Cyclone” and “Sheesha Ghat” (2013) with Anil Menon

• Splitting the Difference: A Discussion about Indian Speculative Fiction, Part 1 (2013)
with Anil Menon

• Writing Climate Change: A Round Table Discussion (2012) with Julie Bertagna and Tobias S. Buckell and Maggie Gee and Glenda Larke and Kim Stanley Robinson and Joan Slonczewski

• From Breaking the Bow: Speculative Fiction Inspired by the Ramayana (Eds. Anil Menon and Vandana Singh), Introduction (Breaking the Bow: Speculative Fiction Inspired by the Ramayana) (2012)

Guest Essays on Jeff VanderMeer’s site
• Paradigm Shifts and the Reading / Writing Life
• The Decolonization of the Mind
• In Search of Indian Science Fiction
• Women Writing in India
• The Creatures We Don’t See: Thoughts on the Animal Other
• Science Fiction & the End of the World

India Currents
Nonfiction written for India Currents, a widely circulated monthly magazine published from California for the Indian-American community.

Illuminating Nature’s Secrets: A Profile of Physicist George Sudarshan
Singh first came across George Sudarshan’s name in a graduate course in Particle Physics . Among other things he is responsible for a theory that correctly explains the Weak force (a sub-nuclear force that is considered one of the fundamental forces of Nature), the idea and theory of the tachyon, and a bunch of advances in quantum optics. He is at the University of Texas in Austin and is still going strong in his 70’s, busting the stereotype that physicists can only have good ideas into their thirties. When Singh lived in Austin she got to know him and his wife, who is also a physicist, through another mutual interest, Indian Classical music (but that is another story).

Nobody’s Children: Udayan Ghar and the Compassion of Kiran Modi
During one of Singh’s visits home to Delhi a couple of years ago, a family friend told her about a unique orphanage in Delhi at which she volunteered. Singh visited there and talked to the extraordinary woman who started Udayan Ghar. It was a truly moving experience.

Women’s Rights as Human Rights: Two South Asian lawyers challenge anti-women laws and policies
This the first article Singh did for India Currents, in which she interviewed two South Asian lawyers in the U.S. working with grassroots organzations in South Asia for women’s rights.

Science Articles and Musings on Writing

Distant Worlds: The Search for Planets Outside the Solar System published in Strange Horizons. This appeared when about a hundred extra-solar planets had been found (we’re at a count of 360 or so in 2009). Singh really had fun with this article, and some of the methods that people use to find extra-solar planets are nothing short of ingenious. It boggles the mind if you think about how much we can find out about other celestial bodies simply from starlight.

On the Importance of Imaginative Literature
Singh wrote this article for the South Asian Women’s Forum ezine (the old ezine, before they got glamorous) back in 2001, when she was still unpublished. It grew out her frustrations with the snobbishness of those who consider Imaginature Literaure to be escapist trash without merit. Not that there isn’t plenty of trash in the genre, but there is such a thing as throwing out the baby with the bathwater…

Sadly, the forum is now defunct, but this is a copy of the article from the Internet Archive: Wayback Machine.

Readers can find out more about these essays from the online Science Fiction database ISDFB here .

Header Image Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, Acknowledgement: Serge Meunier