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Blaft Publications
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An independent publishing house based in Chennai, India. Indian pulp novels in translation, ghostlore, anti-caste sf, graphic novels, street signs, weird stories, & picture books about young women in love with gruesome monsters.

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Blaft Publications @blaft.bsky.social · 4d
Bangaloreans! If you love type, letters, Indian language scripts, vintage shop signage, graphic design, or art deco cinema theatres... join us for the launch of INDIA STREET LETTERING at Champaca on Saturday!

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Elsewhereans: Order here!

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Pooja Saxena is a typeface designer, lettering artist and typographer. She is best known for her work with Indic scripts and her writing on locally rooted typographic cultures. Pooja is a devoted collector of ephemera and chronicler of street lettering. Since 2017, she has maintained an online archive of letterforms on public signs around the country. Nia Thandapani is an independent design historian and practising graphic designer and book maker based in Bangalore. Her work spans colonial and post-independence design history in India and the United Kingdom, with a focus on how questions of power, coloniality and public memory play out in museums, heritage spaces and design practice today. Seats are limited, so please RSVP here to save your spot Jan 17 6 pm, Champaca Bookstore vASANTH nAGAR
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The book INDIA STREET LETTERING is hot off the press, copies are already shipping to Kickstarter backers, and now it is time to take this show on the road! 📚️🥳

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January 14, 2026 at 1:49 PM
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Last June, we held a live conversation with R T Samuel and Ruby Hembrom – editor and founder-director from Blaft Publications and adivaani, respectively – two indie publishers who are championing some of the most exciting and radical work in India’s literary scene. 📚

Read now: buff.ly/5SnHT4B
Cream background. Heading in purple reads: Publishing Commons: R T Samuel and Ruby Hembrom in Conversation. Underneath is a photograph of four people of colour sat in a semi circle. They are in conversation and a screen is lit up behind them.
January 14, 2026 at 2:02 PM
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Just received the devastating news that our friend and author Jugal Mody has passed away, age 39.

An incredibly positive, funny, creative person. We'll really miss him.
January 13, 2026 at 5:40 AM
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Weird but welcome trend from the first two weeks of 2026: a bunch of orders from Eastern Europe. What is driving the Czechs', Poles', and Bulgarians' sudden interest in Indian ghostlore, Gujarati pulp fiction, and anti-caste SF? Who knows, but we hope they enjoy! Děkuju Dziękuję благодаря ви!
January 12, 2026 at 2:35 PM
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Bangaloreans! If you love type, letters, Indian language scripts, vintage shop signage, graphic design, or art deco cinema theatres... join us for the launch of INDIA STREET LETTERING at Champaca on Saturday!

champaca.in/blogs/events...

Elsewhereans: Order here!

www.blaft.com/products/ind...
Pooja Saxena is a typeface designer, lettering artist and typographer. She is best known for her work with Indic scripts and her writing on locally rooted typographic cultures. Pooja is a devoted collector of ephemera and chronicler of street lettering. Since 2017, she has maintained an online archive of letterforms on public signs around the country. Nia Thandapani is an independent design historian and practising graphic designer and book maker based in Bangalore. Her work spans colonial and post-independence design history in India and the United Kingdom, with a focus on how questions of power, coloniality and public memory play out in museums, heritage spaces and design practice today. Seats are limited, so please RSVP here to save your spot Jan 17 6 pm, Champaca Bookstore vASANTH nAGAR
January 12, 2026 at 4:50 AM
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A few reviews of this book have trickled in by now, but we're still just a tad disappointed that none of them have mentioned the incredible science fiction story Vishwambhari unearthed written in *1924* about FLIRTY ALIENS FROM SATURN and GUJARATI SNACKS

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The Blaft Anthology of Gujarati Pulp Fiction
Selected and translated by Vishwambhari S. Parmar Edited by Rakesh Khanna 400 pages. 8.25" x 5.5". 600 g Paperback ISBN:  9789380636696 "...Blaft does it again! Gujarati Pulp Fiction is a showstopper,...
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January 11, 2026 at 5:29 PM
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Found it delightful too. @kuzhalimanickavel.bsky.social @blaft.bsky.social
January 11, 2026 at 8:16 AM
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"strange and hilarious... a high waitWHAT factor"

"I think these would also work well as short performance pieces for two actors, just in case anyone is looking for that"

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January 11, 2026 at 4:06 AM
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Read interview! Buy Artwhoring zines!

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I often find anger to be my strongest expression of love
Speaking to dissident artist Priyanka Paul about art and anger…
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January 9, 2026 at 3:12 PM
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An interview with Rajesh Kumar in Frontline!

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There's at least one of his stories in each volume of our Tamil Pulp Fiction anthologies. Check them out

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Rajesh Kumar: Meet the Tamil Writer Who Has Written Over 1,500 Crime Novels
The 78-year-old author on how writing for the common man has kept him relevant for five generations.
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January 9, 2026 at 8:07 AM
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Today we got a new web order from a country we've never gotten a web order from before

Always makes us want to break out the champagne!

They ordered THE BLAFT BOOK OF ANTI-CASTE SF edited by R. T. Samuel et al. You can order it too!

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The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF
An anthology of weird, fantastic, supernatural, Dalit futurist, & magical realist fiction by writers from South Asia and the diaspora. edited by R.T. Samuel, Rakesh K. and Rashmi R.D. cover art by...
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January 8, 2026 at 4:24 PM
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this is a wild book, and if you have monster-loving teens who like those online gallimaufries of lore, they should love this.
blaft.bsky.social Blaft Publications @blaft.bsky.social · 8d
Yetis and Yakshis and Yatudanas oh my!

A treasury of India's folkloric demons, cryptids, and restless dead

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An excerpt from Jaideep Unudurti's review in OPEN: As you browse through the entries, it feels like traversing a colossal hypertext, the denizens of the netherworlds all interlinked, all shapeshifting. A vast and teeming multitude is revealed, abounding with grotesque imagery; decapitated heads reattaching themselves to the body through blind worms, a monster statue with a garland of snails, culminating in the Bagh Dumma, a person who was killed by a tiger (whose) ‘half-eaten corpse regrows so that it is half-human and half-tiger.’ Front cover of Ghosts, Monsters, and Demons of India by J Furcifer Bhairav and Rakesh Khanna Yakshi, by Shyam. A long-haired buxom beauty half in shadow, with an inviting expression, holding up a thumb, which seems to be alight with a candleflame
January 8, 2026 at 12:04 PM
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Launching Pooja Saxena's INDIA STREET LETTERING at Champaca in Bangalore on January 17!

Register below!

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Pre-order here!

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India Street Lettering Book Launch -- Pooja Saxena in Conversation with Nia Thandapani
January 8, 2026 at 12:00 PM
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Yetis and Yakshis and Yatudanas oh my!

A treasury of India's folkloric demons, cryptids, and restless dead

www.blaft.com/products/gho...
An excerpt from Jaideep Unudurti's review in OPEN: As you browse through the entries, it feels like traversing a colossal hypertext, the denizens of the netherworlds all interlinked, all shapeshifting. A vast and teeming multitude is revealed, abounding with grotesque imagery; decapitated heads reattaching themselves to the body through blind worms, a monster statue with a garland of snails, culminating in the Bagh Dumma, a person who was killed by a tiger (whose) ‘half-eaten corpse regrows so that it is half-human and half-tiger.’ Front cover of Ghosts, Monsters, and Demons of India by J Furcifer Bhairav and Rakesh Khanna Yakshi, by Shyam. A long-haired buxom beauty half in shadow, with an inviting expression, holding up a thumb, which seems to be alight with a candleflame
January 8, 2026 at 11:57 AM
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How to Love Mathematical Objects
A minibook by Kuzhali Manickavel 16 pages. 8.5" x 5.5". 100 g Zine ISBN: 9789380636368 Here's a peek inside: Draw a line segment. Name one end Buttercup and the other Yes-In-Deedy. Draw another line s...
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December 11, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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Priyanka Paul zines available in our webstore

Brilliant, goofy, beautiful, & blisteringly hard-hitting all at once

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Lice Lice Baby -- a zine about head lice! Anger - a zine about anger as a catalyst for change Trust - A zine on handmade paper (this one is just exquisite yougaiz) Numb Tits -- a zine about some weird side effects of surviving sexual assault
January 5, 2026 at 12:17 PM
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Registration for this event is full?? There are 104 seats? Wow! Looking forward to seeing everybody!!
January 2, 2026 at 3:20 AM
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Why are businesses and government officials still on that site?
rmac.bsky.social Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 15d
For the last few days on X, people (mainly women, and sometimes children) have had nonconsensual images of them in swimsuits (or much worse) requested by users and created by Grok.

Musk's only apparent response thus far has been to crack jokes about it.
jael.bsky.social jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 15d
so x dot com’s ai generated CSAM and they admitted it may violate US law and … i haven’t seen in anyone in power say much at all or call to stop using the platform
January 2, 2026 at 1:32 AM
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Walk to the store today y'all
presspostindia.bsky.social presspostindia.bsky.social @presspostindia.bsky.social · 19d
Quick commerce delivery partners announce nationwide strike on Dec 31 over 10-min delivery targets

Delivery partners working with quick commerce platforms such as Swiggy Instamart, Zepto, Blinkit, etc.,  across India have announced plans for a nationwide strike, demanding an end to the pressure of…
Quick commerce delivery partners announce nationwide strike on Dec 31 over 10-min delivery targets
Delivery partners working with quick commerce platforms such as Swiggy Instamart, Zepto, Blinkit, etc.,  across India have announced plans for a nationwide strike, demanding an end to the pressure of 10-minute delivery timelines and what they describe as exploitative platform practices. The call for an all-India strike was given by the Telangana Gig and Platform Workers Union, which took to X to declare that a larger protest is planned for December 31, after a series of flash strikes.
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December 31, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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This Friday: Come hear a living legend of Phule-Ambedkarite Marathi literature talk about his work, his activism, his life in the arts!

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NCPA Little Theatre Jan 2nd, tea at 5:30, talk at 6:30. The Seekers by Gautamiputra Kamble, translated from Marathi by Sirus J Libeiro, with Rakesh Khanna and Pooja Ashokkumar
December 29, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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Killer echinoderms!
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Brittle star vs. Squid! Ophiuroids only appear dainty & harmless. Another cool moment from #OkeanosExplorer #MarineLife
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Brutal Brittle Stars
YouTube video by oceanexplorergov
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December 29, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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hello friends i made this useful collage of writing advice with rules on how to be a responsible citizen, you're welcome
collage of writing advice and images on how to be a good citizen
December 28, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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Restocked at the venerable Mamallapuram landmark APOLLO BOOKS!
Kumaresan, proprietor of Apollo Books, holding a stack of Blaft titles!
December 28, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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Ok the issue is fixed... tickets are available again 😅
December 28, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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BookMyShow is showing that this is sold out, but it isn't yet...!! Working with NCPA to resolve the tech issue
December 28, 2025 at 4:07 AM