Sami A. Khan

Sami Ahmad Khan (born 16 July 1985) is an Indian author based in Delhi. His first novel, Red Jihad: Battle for South Asia (Rupa & Co., 2012), was a military thriller praised for its prescient story line that fictionalized the Maoist-Mujahideen nexus in the Indian Red corridor. Khan has been called "our own Robert Ludlum and Frederick Forsyth" by the Indian magazine Businessworld. The Millennium Post also saw Khan as "bringing Tom Clancy and Robert Ludlum to the streets of Delhi".

Background
Khan read Literature at Hindu College and Rajdhani College, University of Delhi. He completed his master’s in English at Jawaharlal Nehru University and then attended University of Iowa on a Fulbright grant. He has engaged in film production, teaching, theatre and writing. His short stories, plays and articles have been published in magazines and academic journals. Sami is a doctoral candidate at Jawaharlal Nehru University.

Works
Red Jihad: Battle for South Asia is a political/military thriller and garnered generally positive response. It was the first novel to fictionalize the nexus between religious fundamentalism and political terrorism in India; Red Jihad dealt with the liaison between the jihadis and Naxalites in the Red Corridor. The thriller won the "Muse India Young Writer (Runner-Up) Award" at the Hyderabad Literary Festival 2013 and "Excellence in Youth Fiction Writing" at Delhi World Book Fair.

Khan is now working on his second book, a science fiction sequel to Red Jihad that is themed around time travel and alternate history.