Rakesh Khanna
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Rakesh Khanna
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Books, ghosts, math, marine invertebrates. Co-founder & editor @blaft.bsky.social.

Author of Ghosts, Monsters, and Demons of India
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/738269/ghosts-monsters-and-demons-of-india-by-rakesh-khanna/
This anthology I edited has murder hornets, haunted mangroves, boys made of ice cream, and a demon that sends your corpse back home to tell the story of how it killed you:

www.blaft.com/collections/...
November 27, 2025 at 3:14 AM
This article doesn't even get into how goofball the actual text of the Arthashastra is.

A lot of it's about dressing up in snake costumes and blowing clouds of smoke out of your nose, or pretending to see comets that aren't there.

www.indiatoday.in/education-to...
November 14, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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
November 13, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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
Toooo realllll
November 10, 2025 at 12:19 PM
If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it. @artofcoop.bsky.social
November 8, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Bought at the show. Age 11. Mom took me and the two other members of my 6th grade metal band. Mom was the cool kid, obvs
November 3, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Prepping "Things We Found During the Autopsy" for reprint, checking the copyrights page, and thinking about the work that writers do
October 31, 2025 at 9:52 AM
The Bandigoat lives!

7 tales of weird fiction & horror by @kuzhalimanickavel.bsky.social, @emelkrishnan.bsky.social, Jugal Mody, Miriam Kumaradoss-Hohauser, Lungmying Lepcha, and Rashmi Ruth Devadasan

www.blaft.com/products/ban...
October 31, 2025 at 6:17 AM
If you see this, quote with a robot that isn't from Star Wars, Star Trek, Doctor Who, or Transformers
October 31, 2025 at 6:15 AM
I like this one pretty well. They put on one of the best and grungiest live shows I have ever seen.
October 30, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Not to say protesting and other sorts of resistance aren't valuable, but my hunch is this is the one that works best.

If you're an investor, check your portfolios & pull your money.
October 28, 2025 at 12:21 PM
A crate!?! That's a whole lotta jack o'lanterns' worth

Need to source some of these babies
October 26, 2025 at 7:51 AM
We may possibly have had an ulterior motive for hosting a group pumpkin carving session
October 26, 2025 at 7:19 AM
I have just found several lists of Indian speculative fiction writers that refer to Kuzhali Manickavel as "The Most Esoteric Writer in India" 😆

Super proud to be her publisher!
October 23, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Hallo, I'm editor & occasional writer w/ Blaft Publications in Chennai. BANDIGOAT, our new anthology of weird horror fiction, is releasing on Saturday!

www.blaft.com/collections/...

I've also edited Tamil & Gujarati pulp fiction in English translation, anti-caste SF, & a book of Indian ghostlore
October 22, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Watching the total impunity for the perpetrators of this shit just gives the bleakest feeling
October 17, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Chennai! Come to our Bandigoat book launch / pumpkin carving party on Saturday Oct 25th!
October 16, 2025 at 5:31 PM
The bookstore was full of cheery looking stuff yesterday
October 9, 2025 at 1:29 AM
October 7, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Good morning new followers! I'm an editor & occasional author w/ @blaft.bsky.social. We have 2 new titles out this month (weird horror antho + anti-caste stories translated from Marathi). Check out our work:

www.blaft.com/collections/...

Free Palestine 🇵🇸, fight bigotry 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✊🏽, support indie creators
October 6, 2025 at 2:41 AM
When I was researching my book Ghosts, Monsters, and Demons of India, I learned of a 1000-year-old myth about Roman tech being used to build killer robots to guard the Buddha's remains in Pataliputra, and a Hungarian folklorist read my book & got excited about it, & she managed to dig up a🧵(1/3)
October 5, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Final touches on the front matter & copyright notices & acknowledgements! Off to print this weekend! Our first translation from Marathi, very different from anything I've ever edited before. An experience.

Pre-order: www.blaft.com/products/the...
October 3, 2025 at 7:28 AM
I really wish @hindustan-times.bsky.social and other Indian news sites would stop running disinfo for the US right wing. Why choose this headline when there are conflicting reports?

www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/u...
September 29, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Palakkad, Kerala!
September 26, 2025 at 2:34 PM