Dustria is a speculative fiction novel
Dustria, my debut fantasy, is out now! Order from your favourite retailers. Happy reading!
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Dark, disturbing and beautiful.
Peter Cox, Litopia
Dustria is a dark, poetic dive into addiction, power, and redemption—a literary fantasy gem waiting to be discovered.
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About Dustria

Sula, a gifted, young surgeon, makes a terrible mistake, and flees to Dustria, a land of monsters and broken things, to punish herself. But she doesn’t really learn from her mistakes until she is presented with a situation where she must choose between confronting her past or continuing down an unexamined path. Dustria is for the questioning reader, examining themes in unrequited love, substance abuse, sexual diversity, and enduring friendships.
It’s set against the backdrop of a constant exploration of the question: Can we redeem ourselves from terrible mistakes made in our younger years or do we, sometimes, need to find alternate ways to frame our lives in order to grow as individuals and forgive ourselves?
About the Author
Madhurika Sankar is an impact investor and writer whose work appears in The Hindu, India’s leading national newspaper, in the Op Ed. She’s an engineer and holds a Masters in Biotechnology from Columbia University, New York.
Madhurika’s short fiction and nonfiction have appeared in literary journals and magazines such as The Bangalore Review, Litro Magazine, Rock & Sling, The Avenue, The Bombay Review, The Dillydoun Review, Tether’s End Magazine, Visible Magazine, Firewords Magazine and the Landing Zone Magazine.
Her debut novel Dustria, a fantasy, was released in Fall 2024 from Canadian publisher of speculative fiction, Vraeyda Literary. She lives in Chennai, India.
The book was written for, read by, and now in memory of my beloved father, N Sankar.

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Published Short Works (Fiction & Nonfiction)

Neptune’s Storm in Litro journal

Juxtaposition country in Rock and Sling journal'

Sing Into Place in Visible Magazine

The Discriminatory Indian in The Courtship of Winds journal

The Incandescence of Boredom in The Bangalore Review

Maiden Over in Firewords journal

Crouching Liar, Hidden Flagon in Contemporary Literary Review India

The Bones of Perfection in Drunkmonkeys

The Shadowseeker in The Tatterhood Review (now The Landing Zone)

Cauldron of sexual misconduct

We are all similar

A callous response

The anatomy of beauty

Crop of ironies

Deconstructing addiction

Pipe dreams for water transfer

Creating sanctuaries of hope for migrant workers

Real and Surreal
