Salik Shah · Books

Books

Three projects in flight. Two more in notebooks. All published natively on the protocol when ready; mirrored on KDP where it makes sense.

  1. Jailbreak Abundance

    A novel about the agentic economy

    Twenty-five chapters of trojan-horse fiction set in a near-future where intelligence is infrastructure and the Authority cannot audit what people do with their minds. The first book published natively on the Dirgha Protocol.

    In progress · 25 of 25 chapters drafted · 56,446 words

    webepubprint (forthcoming)

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  2. Notes on Sovereignty

    Essays on AI, India, and infrastructure

    A collection of essays on what it means to build sovereign technology — for an individual, a community, a nation. The case for India as the headquarters of the new economy, and the architecture that makes that real.

    Manuscript · forthcoming on the protocol and KDP

    web (forthcoming)epub (forthcoming)print (KDP)

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  3. Mithila Letters

    Translations and original verse from the Maithili tradition

    A bilingual selection from the Mithila literary canon — Vidyapati through to contemporary voices — in original Maithili with English translation. Companion to the Mithila Review project.

    In selection · forthcoming

    web (forthcoming)print (KDP)limited letterpress edition (Mithila Review)

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