*"Strange Horizons" is getting on top of their strangeness game. It's interesting when the authors and publishers seem odder than their own fictions.
http://strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/reviews/the-blaft-anthology-of-tamil-pulp-fiction-vol-iii-selected-and-translated-by-rashmi-ruth-devadasan-rakesh-khanna-v-vinod-and-nirmal-rajagopalan/
"Love as a powerful force also drives the plot of Subha’s “Look Out, Narendran!,” in which a terrorist (and electronics engineer) threatens to destroy the Taj Mahal (“the iconic monument to love”) unless work is stopped on a new railway line. As with the previous detective stories discussed in this review, “Look Out, Narendran!” quickly splits into two storylines, with parallel investigations going into who is making these threats and how to stop them. Once the detectives determine that the railway line is to be built over the grave of the terrorist’s late wife, who was herself killed by a train, it’s up to them to stop him from sending bombs hidden inside of dead, remote-controlled birds to destroy the Taj Mahal. It is only by imagining such a surreal, fantastic scenario as using these birds that the detectives are able to act quickly...."
