@booklet {11640, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The Ministry of Relevance{\textquotedblright} }, howpublished = {The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction Volume 2. With a Graphic Preface and Afterword by Manjula Padmanabhan}, year = {2021}, month = {2021}, pages = {65-85}, publisher = {Hachette India}, address = {Gurugram, India}, abstract = {

In an overpopulated future Mumbai, \“our glorious leader\” has established The Ministry of Relevance\” to determine which individuals are fit to life in the city and who should be expelled. The criteria are \“racial antecedence, consumption habits, moral turpitude, celebrity quotient, social influence, and ideological fidelity\” (70). In a city where books are no longer read, an author is required to prove his relevance and is interrogated by a series of AIs. I

}, keywords = {Indian author, Male author}, isbn = {978-93-91028-62-6}, author = {Arjun Raj Gaind}, editor = {Tarun K. Saint} }