Blaft Publications
@blaft.bsky.social
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.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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Reading this masterpiece as possibly the last book of this year. Hoping not to choke on the hot chocolate @kuzhalimanickavel.bsky.social you will be responsible.
Conversations Regarding the Fatalistic Outlook of the Common Man
Conversations Regarding the Fatalistic Outlook of the Common Man
December 26, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Reading this masterpiece as possibly the last book of this year. Hoping not to choke on the hot chocolate @kuzhalimanickavel.bsky.social you will be responsible.
Conversations Regarding the Fatalistic Outlook of the Common Man
Conversations Regarding the Fatalistic Outlook of the Common Man
The Seekers by Gautamiputra Kamble
A talk with the author, translator, & publisher
and researcher Pooja Ashokkumar
Friday Jan 2, 6:30 pm NCPA Little Theatre, Mumbai
www.ncpamumbai.com/event/page-t...
A talk with the author, translator, & publisher
and researcher Pooja Ashokkumar
Friday Jan 2, 6:30 pm NCPA Little Theatre, Mumbai
www.ncpamumbai.com/event/page-t...
Page to Stage - Reading of the Seekers - NCPA
Book Discussion and Reading of The Seekers by Gautamiputra Kamble An NCPA Library Presentation The Seekers consists of five stories that hold the Phule-Ambedkarite philosophy at their core, weaving to...
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December 26, 2025 at 5:06 AM
The Seekers by Gautamiputra Kamble
A talk with the author, translator, & publisher
and researcher Pooja Ashokkumar
Friday Jan 2, 6:30 pm NCPA Little Theatre, Mumbai
www.ncpamumbai.com/event/page-t...
A talk with the author, translator, & publisher
and researcher Pooja Ashokkumar
Friday Jan 2, 6:30 pm NCPA Little Theatre, Mumbai
www.ncpamumbai.com/event/page-t...
Bombay, hope you all will come out for this! There are something like 150 seats and we want to fill them all up :-)
December 22, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Bombay, hope you all will come out for this! There are something like 150 seats and we want to fill them all up :-)
Some super reviews of "The Seekers" have started to appear on Goodreads:
www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...
Buy a copy from your favourite indie bookshop!
champaca.in/products/the...
www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...
Buy a copy from your favourite indie bookshop!
champaca.in/products/the...
December 21, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Some super reviews of "The Seekers" have started to appear on Goodreads:
www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...
Buy a copy from your favourite indie bookshop!
champaca.in/products/the...
www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...
Buy a copy from your favourite indie bookshop!
champaca.in/products/the...
December 20, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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“India Street Lettering is a warm, thoughtful look at the signs that quietly shape India’s streets... part archive, part love letter and a deeply satisfying record of India’s everyday typography.”
Beaming about the feature in The Nod’s roundup of curated cultural finds thenodmag.com/content/nod-...
Beaming about the feature in The Nod’s roundup of curated cultural finds thenodmag.com/content/nod-...
December 19, 2025 at 4:20 PM
“India Street Lettering is a warm, thoughtful look at the signs that quietly shape India’s streets... part archive, part love letter and a deeply satisfying record of India’s everyday typography.”
Beaming about the feature in The Nod’s roundup of curated cultural finds thenodmag.com/content/nod-...
Beaming about the feature in The Nod’s roundup of curated cultural finds thenodmag.com/content/nod-...
Releasing early January! Pre-order here: www.blaft.com/products/ind...
“India Street Lettering is a warm, thoughtful look at the signs that quietly shape India’s streets... part archive, part love letter and a deeply satisfying record of India’s everyday typography.”
Beaming about the feature in The Nod’s roundup of curated cultural finds thenodmag.com/content/nod-...
Beaming about the feature in The Nod’s roundup of curated cultural finds thenodmag.com/content/nod-...
December 19, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Releasing early January! Pre-order here: www.blaft.com/products/ind...
Bestselling titles at Serendipity Arts Festival in Goa today:
📖💥 THE BLAFT BOOK OF ANTI-CASTE SF
📖💥 A COMPENDIUM OF LESSER SEXY OWL GODS by Kuzhali Manickavel
📖💥STUPID GUY GOES TO INDIA (Yukichi Yamamatsu)
📖💥GHOSTS, MONSTERS, AND DEMONS OF INDIA
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📖💥 THE BLAFT BOOK OF ANTI-CASTE SF
📖💥 A COMPENDIUM OF LESSER SEXY OWL GODS by Kuzhali Manickavel
📖💥STUPID GUY GOES TO INDIA (Yukichi Yamamatsu)
📖💥GHOSTS, MONSTERS, AND DEMONS OF INDIA
www.blaft.com/collections/...
December 18, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Bestselling titles at Serendipity Arts Festival in Goa today:
📖💥 THE BLAFT BOOK OF ANTI-CASTE SF
📖💥 A COMPENDIUM OF LESSER SEXY OWL GODS by Kuzhali Manickavel
📖💥STUPID GUY GOES TO INDIA (Yukichi Yamamatsu)
📖💥GHOSTS, MONSTERS, AND DEMONS OF INDIA
www.blaft.com/collections/...
📖💥 THE BLAFT BOOK OF ANTI-CASTE SF
📖💥 A COMPENDIUM OF LESSER SEXY OWL GODS by Kuzhali Manickavel
📖💥STUPID GUY GOES TO INDIA (Yukichi Yamamatsu)
📖💥GHOSTS, MONSTERS, AND DEMONS OF INDIA
www.blaft.com/collections/...
Today! Do attend if you're in Goa!
December 18, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Today! Do attend if you're in Goa!
We're having some every-small-logistics-thing-that-can-possibly-go-wrong-will-go-wrong indie publisher blues today, anyone want to buy a bunch of horror fiction and weird zines to cheer us up?
www.blaft.com/collections/...
www.blaft.com/collections/...
December 17, 2025 at 4:30 PM
We're having some every-small-logistics-thing-that-can-possibly-go-wrong-will-go-wrong indie publisher blues today, anyone want to buy a bunch of horror fiction and weird zines to cheer us up?
www.blaft.com/collections/...
www.blaft.com/collections/...
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When you’re making a book, not everything you’d like to include makes the cut. I had to let many signs go while editing India Street Lettering www.blaft.com/products/ind..., and among them were ads for astrologers.
To make up, I wrote my small paean to them indiastreetlettering.com/blog/sun-sig...
To make up, I wrote my small paean to them indiastreetlettering.com/blog/sun-sig...
December 14, 2025 at 4:14 PM
When you’re making a book, not everything you’d like to include makes the cut. I had to let many signs go while editing India Street Lettering www.blaft.com/products/ind..., and among them were ads for astrologers.
To make up, I wrote my small paean to them indiastreetlettering.com/blog/sun-sig...
To make up, I wrote my small paean to them indiastreetlettering.com/blog/sun-sig...
Events for THE SEEKERS with Gautamiputra Kamble & Sirus J. Libeiro
Tomorrow!
Sunday DEC 14, 5 pm
at Mehrab Bookshop
Kochi
Thursday DEC 18, 6:30 pm
at Literati Bookshop & Café
Calangute, Goa
Saturday DEC 20, 5 pm
at Dogears Books
Margão, Goa
Friday JAN 2, 5:30 pm
at NCPA Little Theatre
Mumbai
Tomorrow!
Sunday DEC 14, 5 pm
at Mehrab Bookshop
Kochi
Thursday DEC 18, 6:30 pm
at Literati Bookshop & Café
Calangute, Goa
Saturday DEC 20, 5 pm
at Dogears Books
Margão, Goa
Friday JAN 2, 5:30 pm
at NCPA Little Theatre
Mumbai
December 13, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Events for THE SEEKERS with Gautamiputra Kamble & Sirus J. Libeiro
Tomorrow!
Sunday DEC 14, 5 pm
at Mehrab Bookshop
Kochi
Thursday DEC 18, 6:30 pm
at Literati Bookshop & Café
Calangute, Goa
Saturday DEC 20, 5 pm
at Dogears Books
Margão, Goa
Friday JAN 2, 5:30 pm
at NCPA Little Theatre
Mumbai
Tomorrow!
Sunday DEC 14, 5 pm
at Mehrab Bookshop
Kochi
Thursday DEC 18, 6:30 pm
at Literati Bookshop & Café
Calangute, Goa
Saturday DEC 20, 5 pm
at Dogears Books
Margão, Goa
Friday JAN 2, 5:30 pm
at NCPA Little Theatre
Mumbai
Blaft books are available at the Leftwords stall, G-27 Pune Book Fair!!
December 13, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Blaft books are available at the Leftwords stall, G-27 Pune Book Fair!!
Pooja Saxena's INDIA STREET LETTERING includes painted signs, wood signs, neon signs, bus signs, boat signs, food cart signs, signs in 13 different scripts and 17 languages, and signs featuring unusual romanisation of Indian names
Releasing soon! Pre-order here:
www.blaft.com/products/ind...
Releasing soon! Pre-order here:
www.blaft.com/products/ind...
December 13, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Pooja Saxena's INDIA STREET LETTERING includes painted signs, wood signs, neon signs, bus signs, boat signs, food cart signs, signs in 13 different scripts and 17 languages, and signs featuring unusual romanisation of Indian names
Releasing soon! Pre-order here:
www.blaft.com/products/ind...
Releasing soon! Pre-order here:
www.blaft.com/products/ind...
But it has hypercomplex nonassociative algebras and monstrous moonshine and a line segment named Yes-In-Deedy
i wrote a minibook called How to Love Mathematical Objects. just as many people write about The Other without knowing shit about The Other, i have written this minibook about mathematics without knowing shit about mathematics.
i am the colonial white dude of mathematics
i am the colonial white dude of mathematics
December 11, 2025 at 9:44 AM
But it has hypercomplex nonassociative algebras and monstrous moonshine and a line segment named Yes-In-Deedy
Anti-bigotry posters up in our hood 🙌
December 10, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Anti-bigotry posters up in our hood 🙌
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All this for only $5.51. Doesn't this sound delightful?
December 3, 2025 at 7:45 PM
All this for only $5.51. Doesn't this sound delightful?
December 10, 2025 at 9:29 AM
We had 12 of our titles on the list, and it looks like neither we nor our writers/translators are getting anything. 😭 This company has a $350 billion valuation. Blah.
For those of you who think the so-called settlement from Anthropic is good, you should know they stole millions of works, but are only paying for novels. No shorts, non-fiction etc. And if you're a non-US writer, like me, you get nothing even with a US copyright because non-US authors don't count.
December 9, 2025 at 4:15 PM
We had 12 of our titles on the list, and it looks like neither we nor our writers/translators are getting anything. 😭 This company has a $350 billion valuation. Blah.
Quality Christmas gifts for ghostlovers, truthseekers, monsterhunters, and ætherial travel enthusiasts
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December 9, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Quality Christmas gifts for ghostlovers, truthseekers, monsterhunters, and ætherial travel enthusiasts
www.blaft.com/collections/...
www.blaft.com/collections/...
It's really fun to talk about this zine with the warehouse
"Do you have some sexy owl gods?"
"I have plenty of sexy owl gods"
"I need 5 sexy owl gods"
"Why just 5? I'm sending you 100 sexy owl gods... It's always good to have some extra sexy owl gods"
www.blaft.com/products/a-c...
"Do you have some sexy owl gods?"
"I have plenty of sexy owl gods"
"I need 5 sexy owl gods"
"Why just 5? I'm sending you 100 sexy owl gods... It's always good to have some extra sexy owl gods"
www.blaft.com/products/a-c...
A Compendium of Lesser Sexy Owl Gods
by Kuzhali Manickavel 16 page staple-bound zineISBN 978-93-80636-77-1 Bring an offering of asafoetida seeds and a few of your teeth to curry favours with the Sexy Owl God of Perimenopause (results not...
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December 9, 2025 at 12:40 PM
It's really fun to talk about this zine with the warehouse
"Do you have some sexy owl gods?"
"I have plenty of sexy owl gods"
"I need 5 sexy owl gods"
"Why just 5? I'm sending you 100 sexy owl gods... It's always good to have some extra sexy owl gods"
www.blaft.com/products/a-c...
"Do you have some sexy owl gods?"
"I have plenty of sexy owl gods"
"I need 5 sexy owl gods"
"Why just 5? I'm sending you 100 sexy owl gods... It's always good to have some extra sexy owl gods"
www.blaft.com/products/a-c...
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New on the India Street Lettering blog 👉🏽 A ghost sign from Pune, and a blow-by-blow account of how the kind folks on Mastodon helped me uncover what it once advertised indiastreetlettering.com/blog/
December 8, 2025 at 2:05 PM
New on the India Street Lettering blog 👉🏽 A ghost sign from Pune, and a blow-by-blow account of how the kind folks on Mastodon helped me uncover what it once advertised indiastreetlettering.com/blog/
We've got some book events coming up for THE SEEKERS--Dec 14 at Mehrab Bookshop in Ernakulum and Dec 18 at Literati in Goa!
Come meet Gautamiputra Kamble and Sirus J Libeiro and dive into some anti-caste historico-philosophical hopepunk
Come meet Gautamiputra Kamble and Sirus J Libeiro and dive into some anti-caste historico-philosophical hopepunk
December 7, 2025 at 6:25 AM
We've got some book events coming up for THE SEEKERS--Dec 14 at Mehrab Bookshop in Ernakulum and Dec 18 at Literati in Goa!
Come meet Gautamiputra Kamble and Sirus J Libeiro and dive into some anti-caste historico-philosophical hopepunk
Come meet Gautamiputra Kamble and Sirus J Libeiro and dive into some anti-caste historico-philosophical hopepunk
Mumbaikars, if you're heading to Chaityabhoomi on Saturday, stop by the Secular Art Movement stall to meet THE SEEKERS author Gautamiputra Kamble and translator Sirus J. Libeiro
December 4, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Mumbaikars, if you're heading to Chaityabhoomi on Saturday, stop by the Secular Art Movement stall to meet THE SEEKERS author Gautamiputra Kamble and translator Sirus J. Libeiro
Got a little slowed down by the cyclone... Hustling to try to get these out this month. We're looking at test prints right now and they're 😍😍😍
Pre-order on our website!
www.blaft.com/collections/...
Pre-order on our website!
www.blaft.com/collections/...
December 3, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Got a little slowed down by the cyclone... Hustling to try to get these out this month. We're looking at test prints right now and they're 😍😍😍
Pre-order on our website!
www.blaft.com/collections/...
Pre-order on our website!
www.blaft.com/collections/...