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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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Kokaachi comics now available in our OTHER INDIE STUFF! store

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Comix zines by Kokaachi include the "Mixtape" series, "An Autobiografly", and "405"
November 26, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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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!

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Mixtape Vol 1 By Kokaachi. Cover shows a hand clutching an (anatomical) heart Mixtape Vol 2 By Kokaachi. Cover shows a woman holding her arms crossed in front of her -- her arms are coloured in with an ocean wave Mixtape Vol 3 By Kokaachi. Cover shows two lobsters
November 25, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Zines from the zine store: interdimensional portals -- robots in faraway xeric ecosystems -- supernatural entities in the dak bungalow

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Asteroid Succulentious Portalpettai by Avakkai & Chukka You Go Man! Why Me? by Kuzhali Manickavel
November 23, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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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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November 22, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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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...
Advance Screen Supplies signboard (Tamil/English)
November 19, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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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?

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Asteroid Succulentious by Kaimaurundai You Go Man! Why Me? How to Interact with Certain Supernatural Beings in Certain Terrible Places by Kuzhali Manickavel Numb Tits by Priyanka Paul Trouble in Portalpettai by Avakkai & Chukka
November 19, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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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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The front cover of Sports Sucks by Artwhoring (Priyanka Paull) is an illustration of a football, chess piece, basketball, hockey stick, badminton birdie, brain, eyeballs, and large bendy penis with a lil happy splurt
November 18, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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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!

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Bandigoat: A Collection of Strange & Horrible Tales The Blaft Anthology of Gujarati Pulp Fiction The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF Ghosts, Monsters, and Demons of India
November 17, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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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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Book box with eye and bookmark Bandigoat front cover The Arthashastra
November 13, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Spend ₹2000 or more in our webstore and get a free tote bag of your choice!

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Tamil Pulp Fiction Gunslinger Tote Bag Gujarati Pulp Fiction Jalrakshas Tamer Tote Bag Mymoon modelling a Kollivay Pey Tote Bag at the Beach Hemanth modelling an Anti-Caste SF tote bag at Velachery Lake
November 12, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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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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Bandigoat backstory: Misha made this in a screenprinting class and stuck it in an old frame a few years ago. We saw and said that has GOT to be a book cover
Bandigoat in an old frame
November 8, 2025 at 5:28 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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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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Just found this review of @vishwambhari.bsky.social's anthology on GoodReads. Adding the last quote to our website product page!

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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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"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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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 29, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Bestseller on Ama$on this week was SIN IS A PUPPY THAT FOLLOWS YOU HOME, with sales likely spurred by the new documentary that's been showing in select theatres on the life of child-bride-turned-superstar-Hausa-novelist-turned-movie-producer Balaraba Ramat Yakubu!

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Balaraba Ramat Yakubu c. 2011 Sin Is a Puppy That Follows You Home by Balaraba Ramat Yakubu. Cover photo by Glenna Gordon
October 28, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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A bunch of jack-o'lanterns at Kannadi Cupboard in Tambaram, with text reading "The Bandigoat has been released"
October 26, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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Starting now!
BKK Comics Art Festival, Oct 24-26: Blaft Publications live in Bangkok
October 25, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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Back in stock: The classic 2nd century BCE Sanskrit work on statecraft and military strategy, retold in simple modern English by an assortment of copyright-free and/or stock clip art characters including worms, dinosaurs, random monsters, and stick figures.

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Zine Cover image: The Artashastra of Kautilya, Book XIII Chapter I, Sowing the Seeds of Dissension. Cover shows a large three-eyed worm with dorsal spines Worms and caterpillers explain: "Here's how to convince everyone that you're all knowing" "Boil up the intestines of a red spotted deer with some crab meat, otterfat, porpoise fat, and crocodile fat to make an oil. Get some of your friends to rub this oil on their noses."
October 21, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Back in stock in the "Other Indies" section of our webstore: zines by the startlingly original up-and-coming Mumbai-based genderspicy artist Larchtongue

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Biscuit Time by Larchtongue (demonthing with two people dancing at its feet; sunflower) Institutionalised by Larchtongue (Heart formed from two skeleton people)
October 21, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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FRIDAY 24/10: Blaft will have a table at Print Gully Zine Fest in London!

SATURDAY 25/10: Bandigoat release party at Kannadi Cupboard in Tambaram, Chennai! Come carve pumpkins with us! (RSVP to reserve a gourd)

SAT-SUN 25-26/10: Blaft will have a table at the Bangkok Comics Art Festival!
Print Gully Zine Fair, Harrow, UK with R T Samuel, editor of The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF Oct 24 11-6 BKK Comics Art Festival Oct 25-26. Illustration shows Blaft alien riding an elephant (Bangkok metro city emblem) Bandigoat Release Party Oct 25! 4:30-7:30 pm, Kannadi Cupboard, Tambaram
October 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Two lesser sexy owl gods looking at Darth Vada skeptically/threateningly/smoulderingly
October 18, 2025 at 10:54 AM