Blaft Publications
@blaft.bsky.social
An independent publishing house based in Chennai, India. Indian pulp novels in translation, ghostlore, graphic novels, street signs, weird stories, & picture books about young women in love with gruesome monsters.
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@blaft.bsky.social
· Sep 4
Bandigoat: A Collection of Strange & Horrible Tales
Seven Indian authors. Seven stories of the eerie, the gruesome, the demonic, and the melty.
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Ever watched a girl you barely know get eaten alive by murder hornets in the mess hall? Ever spoken to a dead guy who came home to tell you about the demon who killed him?
Pre-order BANDIGOAT
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Pre-order BANDIGOAT
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We’re exceptionally exhilarated to be exhibiting yet another comics publisher on our “OTHER INDIE STUFF” page: the one & only STUDIO KOKAACHI!
The Kochi-based team's “Mixtapes” & other comics have been hard to find online for years… but now you can COLLECT THEM ALL!
www.blaft.com/collections/...
The Kochi-based team's “Mixtapes” & other comics have been hard to find online for years… but now you can COLLECT THEM ALL!
www.blaft.com/collections/...
November 25, 2025 at 1:59 PM
We’re exceptionally exhilarated to be exhibiting yet another comics publisher on our “OTHER INDIE STUFF” page: the one & only STUDIO KOKAACHI!
The Kochi-based team's “Mixtapes” & other comics have been hard to find online for years… but now you can COLLECT THEM ALL!
www.blaft.com/collections/...
The Kochi-based team's “Mixtapes” & other comics have been hard to find online for years… but now you can COLLECT THEM ALL!
www.blaft.com/collections/...
Zines from the zine store: interdimensional portals -- robots in faraway xeric ecosystems -- supernatural entities in the dak bungalow
www.blaft.com/collections/...
www.blaft.com/collections/...
November 23, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Zines from the zine store: interdimensional portals -- robots in faraway xeric ecosystems -- supernatural entities in the dak bungalow
www.blaft.com/collections/...
www.blaft.com/collections/...
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YouTube surreptitiously deleted all these videos in early October by wiping the accounts that posted them from its website, along with their channels’ archives. The accounts belonged to three prominent Palestinian human rights groups
YouTube Quietly Erased More Than 700 Videos Documenting Israeli Human Rights Violations
The tech giant deleted the accounts of three prominent Palestinian human rights groups — a capitulation to Trump sanctions.
theintercept.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:57 AM
YouTube surreptitiously deleted all these videos in early October by wiping the accounts that posted them from its website, along with their channels’ archives. The accounts belonged to three prominent Palestinian human rights groups
Almost out of Anti-Caste Speculative Fiction Tote Bags... so we're getting more printed
Featuring Priyanka Paul's "Babasaheb in the Future" and "Drummer Boy"
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Click here to buy the book:
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Featuring Priyanka Paul's "Babasaheb in the Future" and "Drummer Boy"
www.blaft.com/collections/...
Click here to buy the book:
www.blaft.com/products/the...
November 22, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Almost out of Anti-Caste Speculative Fiction Tote Bags... so we're getting more printed
Featuring Priyanka Paul's "Babasaheb in the Future" and "Drummer Boy"
www.blaft.com/collections/...
Click here to buy the book:
www.blaft.com/products/the...
Featuring Priyanka Paul's "Babasaheb in the Future" and "Drummer Boy"
www.blaft.com/collections/...
Click here to buy the book:
www.blaft.com/products/the...
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The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF gets a shout-out at the end!
"both marker and manifesto"
"both marker and manifesto"
Finally out into the world, the labour of many months. My long essay in the inaugural edition of the Alter Magazine on the pasts, presents, and futures of Indian science fiction.
“The Secret History of Indian Science Fiction” —
altermag.com/articles/the...
“The Secret History of Indian Science Fiction” —
altermag.com/articles/the...
The Secret History of Indian Science Fiction.
Before Asimov, there was Rokeya.
altermag.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:30 AM
The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF gets a shout-out at the end!
"both marker and manifesto"
"both marker and manifesto"
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I haven’t read this one yet (my copy is lying in wait in India) but talking about SF in translation for #SciFiMonth is a great opportunity to call out the folk @blaft.bsky.social who have been putting out amazing works of translated SF (and broader pulp / genre writings) from India.
Since I happen to have a bunch of them open, here is a 🧵 of links to some RAVE REVIEWS that **THE BLAFT BOOK OF ANTI-CASTE SF** has gotten over the past year
Ankita G in Helter Skelter:
helterskelter.in/2025/04/book...
Ankita G in Helter Skelter:
helterskelter.in/2025/04/book...
Book Review: The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF | Helter Skelter Magazine
The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF is an anthology of speculative fiction that sees both established and emerging Dalit Bahujan writers explore the possibilities and impossibilities of their lives.
helterskelter.in
November 19, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I haven’t read this one yet (my copy is lying in wait in India) but talking about SF in translation for #SciFiMonth is a great opportunity to call out the folk @blaft.bsky.social who have been putting out amazing works of translated SF (and broader pulp / genre writings) from India.
Bharti Dharapuram interviews Pooja Saxena about her upcoming book INDIA STREET LETTERING in the Institute of Mathematical Sciences’ newsletter: www.imsc.res.in/outreach/sci...
November 19, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Bharti Dharapuram interviews Pooja Saxena about her upcoming book INDIA STREET LETTERING in the Institute of Mathematical Sciences’ newsletter: www.imsc.res.in/outreach/sci...
An ivy league university library just ordered one-one copy of all our Priyanka Paul, Larchtongue, Kuzhali Manickavel, Kaimaurundai, and Avakkai & Chukka zines
Why not put on a tie, light up a pipe, talk with an underbite, and order some for yourself?
www.blaft.com/collections/...
Why not put on a tie, light up a pipe, talk with an underbite, and order some for yourself?
www.blaft.com/collections/...
November 19, 2025 at 6:49 PM
An ivy league university library just ordered one-one copy of all our Priyanka Paul, Larchtongue, Kuzhali Manickavel, Kaimaurundai, and Avakkai & Chukka zines
Why not put on a tie, light up a pipe, talk with an underbite, and order some for yourself?
www.blaft.com/collections/...
Why not put on a tie, light up a pipe, talk with an underbite, and order some for yourself?
www.blaft.com/collections/...
Since I happen to have a bunch of them open, here is a 🧵 of links to some RAVE REVIEWS that **THE BLAFT BOOK OF ANTI-CASTE SF** has gotten over the past year
Ankita G in Helter Skelter:
helterskelter.in/2025/04/book...
Ankita G in Helter Skelter:
helterskelter.in/2025/04/book...
Book Review: The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF | Helter Skelter Magazine
The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF is an anthology of speculative fiction that sees both established and emerging Dalit Bahujan writers explore the possibilities and impossibilities of their lives.
helterskelter.in
November 19, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Since I happen to have a bunch of them open, here is a 🧵 of links to some RAVE REVIEWS that **THE BLAFT BOOK OF ANTI-CASTE SF** has gotten over the past year
Ankita G in Helter Skelter:
helterskelter.in/2025/04/book...
Ankita G in Helter Skelter:
helterskelter.in/2025/04/book...
Cover illustration by Appupen!
Don’t you love just how quiet this is? Especially for a book called that.
@blaft.bsky.social @blaftrakesh.bsky.social
@blaft.bsky.social @blaftrakesh.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Cover illustration by Appupen!
Priyanka Paul's new zine has a giant schlong on the cover, and I'm not sure which social media sites it's safe to post it to 😅
Is this the right tag to use for Bluesky?
Subscribe to POST PRANDIAL RIOT for an early copy. Out in the mail this week
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Is this the right tag to use for Bluesky?
Subscribe to POST PRANDIAL RIOT for an early copy. Out in the mail this week
www.patreon.com/c/postprandi...
November 18, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Priyanka Paul's new zine has a giant schlong on the cover, and I'm not sure which social media sites it's safe to post it to 😅
Is this the right tag to use for Bluesky?
Subscribe to POST PRANDIAL RIOT for an early copy. Out in the mail this week
www.patreon.com/c/postprandi...
Is this the right tag to use for Bluesky?
Subscribe to POST PRANDIAL RIOT for an early copy. Out in the mail this week
www.patreon.com/c/postprandi...
From Kolkata's Elite Cinema to Bengaluru's Parade Café, India's iconic signage is fast disappearing.
Pooja Saxena's upcoming book gets profiled at Creative Boom:
www.creativeboom.com/resources/wh...
Pre-order your copy of INDIA STREET LETTERING:
www.blaft.com/collections/...
Pooja Saxena's upcoming book gets profiled at Creative Boom:
www.creativeboom.com/resources/wh...
Pre-order your copy of INDIA STREET LETTERING:
www.blaft.com/collections/...
Why India's disappearing street lettering is unmissable inspiration for designers
Pooja Saxena's new book showcases how handcrafted signage suggests fresh typographic possibilities beyond canonical print traditions.
For designers used to working with digital typefaces and brand...
www.creativeboom.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:38 PM
From Kolkata's Elite Cinema to Bengaluru's Parade Café, India's iconic signage is fast disappearing.
Pooja Saxena's upcoming book gets profiled at Creative Boom:
www.creativeboom.com/resources/wh...
Pre-order your copy of INDIA STREET LETTERING:
www.blaft.com/collections/...
Pooja Saxena's upcoming book gets profiled at Creative Boom:
www.creativeboom.com/resources/wh...
Pre-order your copy of INDIA STREET LETTERING:
www.blaft.com/collections/...
We offer free shipping within India! And we ship internationally! We have ebooks! We have anti-caste speculative fiction! We have stories from Tamil & Gujarati pulp magazines in translation! We have a ghost encyclopedia! We have an extradimensional hybrid goat-rat entity!
www.blaft.com
www.blaft.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:54 AM
We offer free shipping within India! And we ship internationally! We have ebooks! We have anti-caste speculative fiction! We have stories from Tamil & Gujarati pulp magazines in translation! We have a ghost encyclopedia! We have an extradimensional hybrid goat-rat entity!
www.blaft.com
www.blaft.com
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This is an excellent collection of stories! @blaftrakesh.bsky.social @kuzhalimanickavel.bsky.social
November 15, 2025 at 12:30 PM
This is an excellent collection of stories! @blaftrakesh.bsky.social @kuzhalimanickavel.bsky.social
All sold! Thanks for giving these Ghosts a home!
Received a return box from a book fair 2 years ago with ~12 copies of "Ghosts, Monsters, and Demons of India" that have slightly banged up covers. Nothing wrong with insides.
Selling em on the Blaft site for ₹300 (70% discount)! India only. Use code BATTLESCARREDGHOSTS at checkout.
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Selling em on the Blaft site for ₹300 (70% discount)! India only. Use code BATTLESCARREDGHOSTS at checkout.
www.blaft.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:19 PM
All sold! Thanks for giving these Ghosts a home!
Kicked to have BANDIGOAT: A COLLECTION OF STRANGE & HORRIBLE TALES be a part of "The Garden"'s first Book Box. Includes creature cards, ceramic eye, field notebook, and more
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November 13, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Kicked to have BANDIGOAT: A COLLECTION OF STRANGE & HORRIBLE TALES be a part of "The Garden"'s first Book Box. Includes creature cards, ceramic eye, field notebook, and more
discoverthe.garden/products/oct...
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4 left! Order quick!
Received a return box from a book fair 2 years ago with ~12 copies of "Ghosts, Monsters, and Demons of India" that have slightly banged up covers. Nothing wrong with insides.
Selling em on the Blaft site for ₹300 (70% discount)! India only. Use code BATTLESCARREDGHOSTS at checkout.
www.blaft.com
Selling em on the Blaft site for ₹300 (70% discount)! India only. Use code BATTLESCARREDGHOSTS at checkout.
www.blaft.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:03 PM
4 left! Order quick!
Spend ₹2000 or more in our webstore and get a free tote bag of your choice!
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November 12, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Spend ₹2000 or more in our webstore and get a free tote bag of your choice!
www.blaft.com/collections/...
www.blaft.com/collections/...
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Blaft latest releases and zines are back on the shelves at IDIOM BOOK SELLERS in Fort Kochi, Kerala!
November 12, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Blaft latest releases and zines are back on the shelves at IDIOM BOOK SELLERS in Fort Kochi, Kerala!
CALLING ALL CACTOPHILES: Kaimaurundai's new zine, ASTEROID SUCCULENTIOUS, is now available in our webstore.
Experience an off-world xeriscape filled with gentle robots living in harmony with nature
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Experience an off-world xeriscape filled with gentle robots living in harmony with nature
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November 8, 2025 at 11:40 AM
CALLING ALL CACTOPHILES: Kaimaurundai's new zine, ASTEROID SUCCULENTIOUS, is now available in our webstore.
Experience an off-world xeriscape filled with gentle robots living in harmony with nature
www.blaft.com/collections/...
Experience an off-world xeriscape filled with gentle robots living in harmony with nature
www.blaft.com/collections/...
Ebooks available! We have a new weird horror anthology! Speculative fiction against the caste system! Tamil & Gujarati pulp fiction in translation! Lots more!
www.blaft.com/collections/...
www.blaft.com/collections/...
November 8, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Ebooks available! We have a new weird horror anthology! Speculative fiction against the caste system! Tamil & Gujarati pulp fiction in translation! Lots more!
www.blaft.com/collections/...
www.blaft.com/collections/...
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Good literary translation requires understanding (language, culture, genre--on both sides of the translation) and an ability to write well. "AI" can't do that. There are no shortcuts. Treat your work and foreign language readers with the respect they deserve. You won't fool anyone with this.
Amazon has launched a new AI-driven translation service, Kindle Translate, for Kindle Direct Publishing authors 👇 #BookSky
Amazon launches AI translation service for indie authors
ebx.sh
November 7, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Good literary translation requires understanding (language, culture, genre--on both sides of the translation) and an ability to write well. "AI" can't do that. There are no shortcuts. Treat your work and foreign language readers with the respect they deserve. You won't fool anyone with this.
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It'll be treacherous, but fun
a blurred image of a muddy surface with a tree branch in the background
Alt: a blurred image of an alligator sliding through mud, with a tree branch in the background
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November 7, 2025 at 5:42 PM
It'll be treacherous, but fun
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October 2025 reads
Above is everything I finished reading in October! And here's what I thought was particularly or pretty good: Forfeiture x JP Nebra The Smell of Rain x Libby Young The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF (took me long enough!) An Unbreakable World x Ren Hutchings Who Will You Save? x…
Above is everything I finished reading in October! And here's what I thought was particularly or pretty good: Forfeiture x JP Nebra The Smell of Rain x Libby Young The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF (took me long enough!) An Unbreakable World x Ren Hutchings Who Will You Save? x…
October 2025 reads
Above is everything I finished reading in October! And here's what I thought was particularly or pretty good: Forfeiture x JP Nebra The Smell of Rain x Libby Young The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF (took me long enough!) An Unbreakable World x Ren Hutchings Who Will You Save? x Gareth L. Powell Tall is Her Body x Robert de la Chevotière Racebook x Tochi Onyebuchi The Inner Life of Mrs Dalloway x Edward Mendelson The rest were interesting too.
hararereview.wordpress.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:26 PM
October 2025 reads
Above is everything I finished reading in October! And here's what I thought was particularly or pretty good: Forfeiture x JP Nebra The Smell of Rain x Libby Young The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF (took me long enough!) An Unbreakable World x Ren Hutchings Who Will You Save? x…
Above is everything I finished reading in October! And here's what I thought was particularly or pretty good: Forfeiture x JP Nebra The Smell of Rain x Libby Young The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF (took me long enough!) An Unbreakable World x Ren Hutchings Who Will You Save? x…
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A Megha story is always full of gorgeous language and surprises that will make your head spin and the story impossible to forget ❤️
"Salt Slough" is a story folded into an academic paper trapped into another story by the paper’s footnotes. It is a sentient lagoon. It is a researcher who sees beneath what their eyes show them. Not entirely by choice. Things bloom. Sometimes everywhere.
Bandigoat: A Collection of Strange & Horrible Tales
Out now! edited by Rakesh Khanna 144 pages. 8.25" x 5.5". 300 g.Paperback ISBN: 9789380636788 Seven Indian authors. Seven stories of the eerie, the gruesome, the demonic, and the melty. Ever watched ...
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November 7, 2025 at 5:27 AM
A Megha story is always full of gorgeous language and surprises that will make your head spin and the story impossible to forget ❤️