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Blaft Publications
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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 Publications @blaft.bsky.social · Sep 4
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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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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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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It's a carbon-doughtnut-plus-salt-puff-rain kind of data collection day on Asteroid Succulentious. A sandwich model sample collector robot and a classic OG rectangular cuboidal model hover hear the stalagmite cacti towers. some robots, in white, and cactuses, also in white, among salt-puff rain, also white, on a red background, with black doughnuts Sarcophagus sample collector amongst cacti (white on black) with sulphur pearl slime Asteroid Succulentious by @kaimaurundai - front cover
November 8, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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Ebooks available! We have a new weird horror anthology! Speculative fiction against the caste system! Tamil & Gujarati pulp fiction in translation! Lots more!

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Bandigoat: A Collection of Strange & Horrible Tales. Front cover Gujarati Pulp Fiction. Front cover by Nabi H Ali shows a scuba diving garba dancer fending off a jalrakshas The Aayakudi Murders by Indra Soundar Rajan. Front cover by Shyam shows a young spirit-possessed girl in half-sari with flying hair, a journalist, and a cop The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF. Front cover by Priyanka Paul "Babasaheb in the Future"
November 8, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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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.
thebookseller.com The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 4d
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
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November 7, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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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
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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…
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.
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November 7, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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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 ❤️
emelkrishnan.bsky.social M. L. Krishnan @emelkrishnan.bsky.social · 4d
"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
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Take a walk on some silty sand www.blaft.com/collections/...
November 7, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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Marathi newspapers are hard to find here in Chennai lol
November 7, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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All our local Chennai Post Offices have had their software down for the last 3 days! Please excuse shipment delays!

(How widespread is this? It's not in the news... Is it just our neighbourhoods?)
November 7, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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I’m so out of it, my self-promo has plunged into a ravine of nothingness, even while I had a brand new story come out exactly two weeks ago in @blaft.bsky.social's deliciously bizarre new anthology, Bandigoat: A Collection of Strange & Horrible Tales! So let me tell you a little bit about it. 👁️🌿
November 7, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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Planning to add some new zine artists to our OTHER INDIE STUFF page today and tomorrow.

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Come spend money in our shop so we can buy more stock!
Other Indie Stuff!
Blaft is now selling and distributing titles by other excellent Indian small publishers, comics artists, and zine makers--including Bakarmax, Halahala Comics, Studio Ekonte, and Larchtongue. Down with...
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November 7, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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Kuzhali Manickavel's second collection has gone for reprint.

Read one of her flash pieces. Let yourself be metagrobolised by her titles.

Watch the book trailer (featuring record scratching / razor blades / superdance).

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Order a copy!

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how to wear an indian village Park the car next to a vendor selling tender coconuts. Ask how the crop has been while you weigh each coconut in your hand. Do not smile when you hear the water splashing inside like a secret waterfall. Wear sunglasses. When they ask where you’re from, say you are from Chennai. Say it with a drawl, like it is an American word. Do not say you are from Madras. If you are a man, have two tender coconuts even though they will make you feel thirsty once you get back in the car. If you are a woman, drink half a coconut and give the rest to the man. Waylay children with bicycles. Grab the handlebars and insist you will only take the cycle down the road and back. Ride with one village child attached to your back and one seated on the handlebars. Make sure someone takes pictures of you. Show your teeth when you smile. Promise the children that you will send copies of every photograph that was taken. Write their addresses down in English. Make them promise to wait for your letter everyday. Make them say “Yes, we promise” in unison. Do not stay more than twenty-two minutes. As the car pulls away, wave once and quickly roll up the window. Two weeks later, you will find abandoned slips of addresses under the car mats. Stuff these into an old cigarette carton and toss it into one of the rabbit-shaped garbage cans in the nearest park. Keep the pictures. a basic guide to instigating violence among gentoo penguins in the tropicool icy-land urban indian slum put your hand in the hand of the man with his hand in the hand of the man with his hand in the windmills of your mind Things We Found During the Autopsy - short fiction by Kuzhali Manickavel - front cover by Prabha Mallya
November 6, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Kindle bestsellers so far this month are BANDIGOAT and GUJARATI PULP FICTION

Notice: You don't have to pay the Beastly Bezorg to read our books! Buy MOBI, EPUB or PDF format ebooks from our website! The prices should be lower than Ama$on's! (Ping us if they're not!)

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Bandigoat - A Collection of Strange & Horrible Tales The Blaft Anthology of Gujarati Pulp Fiction by Vishwambhari S. Parmar
November 6, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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"Boochandi" is the Tamil word for boogeyman. The one in this story rides a giant kohl-black rooster and wears an interesting watch
November 4, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Just found this review of @vishwambhari.bsky.social's anthology on GoodReads. Adding the last quote to our website product page!

Dive into The Blaft Anthology of Gujarati Pulp Fiction: www.blaft.com/products/the...
Mahi Aggarwal's review of Gujarati Pulp Fiction on Goodreads. "The inclusion of illustrations and old-school cover art adds so much nostalgic charm. It’s like holding a piece of hidden literary history in your hands. Whether you’re a fan of horror, fantasy, crime, or just something completely different, this anthology is a rare gem. Loud, proud, and pulpy to the core" Gujarati Pulp Fiction book cover Vishwambhari S Parmar with a flower in her hair
November 3, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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An excerpt from Rashmi Ruth Devadasan's demonic boochandi story, THE LEGEND OF RANI GRACE, is up at Scroll:

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Read the rest in BANDIGOAT: A Collection of Strange & Horrible Tales

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Strange tales: A woman’s lover is abducted by a bogeyman riding atop a gigantic rooster
An excerpt from ‘Bandigoat: A Collection of Strange and Horrible Tales’, edited by Rakesh Khanna.
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November 3, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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Meditations on the ancient conflict between Buddhism and Hinduism, the strictures of tradition, casteism in the classical arts, & the quest for excellence... served up with a dose of symbolic magic. From the founder of Maharashtra's Secular Art Movement

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The Seekers
Out now!   by Gautamiputra Kambletranslated from the Marathi by Sirus J. Libeiro 186 pages. 8.25" x 5.5". 275 g.ISBN: 978-93-80636-85-6 The seekers in these stories travel through worlds both ancient ...
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November 2, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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also got an anthology of gujarati pulp fiction and this as part of my kickstarter pledge; the author is a chicagoan
mizo myths 2nd edition by cherrie lalnunziri chhangte, with an illustration of two people in a forest; one is a woman with knee length hair and a red cape, the other is a man-tiger hybrid who is sitting by a fire smoking a pipe
October 31, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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got a scary book for halloween
the blaft anthology of tamil pulp fiction vol ii, with an illustration of a buxom woman drinking blood from a skull with a straw, a drop of which has spilled on her breast
October 31, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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"Mizo Myths" author Cherrie L Chhangte has a story in this collection, alongside many other luminaries -- check it out!

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Mizo Myths by Cherrie Lalnunziri Chhangte (Blaft) Lapbah: Stories from the North-East, Vol. 2, ed. Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih & Rimi Nath
November 2, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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Sirus went deep on this translation. There was a lot to bring out... Navayana Buddhism, the ancient history of Maharashtra, the struggles of Dalit artists in the Hindustani music and classical dance academies, phonetic anagrams referencing famous psychologists and sun temples...
blaft.bsky.social Blaft Publications @blaft.bsky.social · 13d
Just realised we have been doing all the Gautamiputra Kamble promo on Instagram and hardly any of it here.

This book is out, yougaiz! Anti-caste speculative historico-philosophical hopepunk translated from Marathi! Check it!

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The Seekers by Gautamiputra Kamble, translated from the Marathi by Sirus J. Libeiro
October 31, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Fans of darker speculative fiction tales should take a look at Bandigoat: a Collection of Strange & Horrible Tales, edited by Rakesh Khanna. Out 10/24 from Blaft.
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Review: “Bandigoat: a Collection of Strange & Horrible Tales” edited by Rakesh Khanna
Release Date: October 24, 2025Publisher: Blaft PublicationsGenre: Anthologies Description Seven Indian authors. Seven stories of the eerie, the gruesome, the demonic, and the melty. Ever watched a …
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October 23, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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If you see this, quote with a robot that isn't from Star Wars, Star Trek, Doctor Who, or Transformers
Tala-Pattachitra by Pachanana Moharana showing an alien robot, purportedly from the 1947 Nayagarh landing, on a segue-like device. From THE OBLITERARY JOURNAL Vol. 1
October 31, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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List of languages from which we've published translations till date (at least a short story or poem):

Tamil
Urdu
Hindi
Hausa
Japanese
Bengali
Sanskrit
Mizo
Oxomiya
Gujarati
Malayalam
Limbu
Telugu
Marathi

(Kinda proud of this)
October 29, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Just realised we have been doing all the Gautamiputra Kamble promo on Instagram and hardly any of it here.

This book is out, yougaiz! Anti-caste speculative historico-philosophical hopepunk translated from Marathi! Check it!

www.blaft.com/collections/...
The Seekers by Gautamiputra Kamble, translated from the Marathi by Sirus J. Libeiro
October 29, 2025 at 4:01 PM