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Asteroid Succulentious

Portalpettai by Avakkai & Chukka

You Go Man! Why Me? by Kuzhali Manickavel

Zines from the zine store: interdimensional portals -- robots in faraway xeric ecosystems -- supernatural entities in the dak bungalow

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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.

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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The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF gets a shout-out at the end!

"both marker and manifesto"

Yay!! That's fine, we're pretty sure these stories all have a long shelf life

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.

Thanks for the boost!

Advance Screen Supplies signboard (Tamil/English)

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...

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

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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The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF An anthology of weird, fantastic, supernatural, Dalit futurist, & magical realist fiction by writers from South Asia and the diaspora. edited by R.T. Samuel, Rakesh K. and Rashmi R.D. cover art by...

If you haven't read it yet... it's probably time to pick up a copy!

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Grab some of Priyanka Paul's stickers while you're at it

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Books | Reality check The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF is a must-read collection of dark tales lit by flashes of wry, sardonic humour

Manjula Padmanabhan in India Today:

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The present and deep past of anti-caste speculative fiction IN 1920, the Czech author Karel Čapek wrote a science fiction play called R.U.R. – short for Rossumovi Univerzalni Roboti, or Rossum’s Universal Robots. Credite

Sreyartha Krishna in HimalMag:

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Anti-Caste SF Anthology Breaks Genre and Social Codes What happens when Dalit, Bahujan, and Adivasi imaginations chart the future? This anti-caste SF anthology blends satire, rage, and radical hope.

Amritesh Mukherjee in Frontline:

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Devarsi Ghosh in Scroll:

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[REVIEW] “The Fierce Imagination of 𝐴𝑛𝑡𝑖-𝐶𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑒 𝑆𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝐹𝑖𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛” by Ananya Singh 📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS R.T. Samuel, Rakesh K. and Rashmi R.D. (editors), The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF, Blaft Publications, 2025. 428 pgs…

Ananya Singh in Cha Journal:

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The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF ⮌ SFRA Review, vol. 55, no. 3 Fiction Reviews download Review of The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF Paromita Sarkar Samuel, R.T., Rakesh Khanna, and Rashmi Ruth Devadasan, editors. The Blaft Book…

Paromita Sarkar in SFRA Review:

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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.

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:
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Cover illustration by Appupen!

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

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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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...

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:

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Pre-order your copy of INDIA STREET LETTERING:

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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

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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Glad you're digging it! Thanks for boosting!

A copy of Bandigoat with a goat creature with a rag tail.

This is an excellent collection of stories! @blaftrakesh.bsky.social @kuzhalimanickavel.bsky.social

All sold! Thanks for giving these Ghosts a home!

Book box with eye and bookmark

Bandigoat front cover

The Arthashastra

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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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

Spend ₹2000 or more in our webstore and get a free tote bag of your choice!

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Ghosts, Monsters, and Demons of India; The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF; Bandigoat: A Collection of Strange & Horrible Tales; Conversations Regarding the Fatalistic Outlook of the Common Man & Insects Are Just Like You and Me Except Some of Them Have Wings by Kuzhali Manickavel

The Aayakudi Murders by Indra Soundar Rajan; The H2O Problem by Vidyun Sabhaney; Trouble in Portpettai; A Compendium of Lesser Sexy Owl Gods; How to Love Mathematical Objects; and other zines

The Aayakudi Murders by Indra Soundar Rajan; You Go Man! Why Me? By Kuzhali Manickavel; The H2O Problem by Vidyun Sabhaney; Trouble in Portpettai by Avakkai & Chukka; Killer Echinoderms in Indian History by Virender Murkblob; A Compendium of Lesser Sexy Owl Gods; How to Love Mathematical Objects; and other zines

Blaft latest releases and zines are back on the shelves at IDIOM BOOK SELLERS in Fort Kochi, Kerala!

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

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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Cringe groan explode 💥