Rakesh Khanna

"Pestilence", "War", "Death" by Laura Thalassa

"King of Greed", "King of Sloth", "King of Pride" by Ana Huang

"God of Fury" "God of War" "God of Ruin" by Rina Kent

The bookstore was full of cheery looking stuff yesterday

Don't watch Gandhi

Never watch Gandhi

Study Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar

Ambedkar getting completely edited out of that screenplay is up there with Disney's Pocohantas in egregious Hollywood historical distortions

Map of Texas showing location of Norment

If yougaiz do Instagram I really hope you are following @artwhoring's crusade against bullshit plagiarist AI slop peddlers in the Indian art world. She's also linking to a slew of incredible real deal artists you can support instead of the sloppers. The woman is a national treasure!

Bandigoat: A Collection of Strange & Horrible Tales

The Seekers by Gautamiputra Kamble

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:

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& I'll keep you in the loop if @fabulatrix.bsky.social, Sirus and Gautamiputra get anywhere with the English translation :-)

Will check out for sure!

Thank you! Will contact for sure!!

Yes! I can't remember if yours was the first article I read about it, but it's definitely the one that sent me to John Strong! Thanks so much!!

We'll see!

Hope you enjoy! It was loads of fun to put together!

It's too real
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What is it with hiding stuff in your thigh fr? I've found this in a bunch of Indian folktales

Oh look, @fabulatrix.bsky.social is here

Unfortunately no I think.

Thank you! 😁 Hope you enjoy! Always carry some mustard seed! And a piece of iron!

There's another couple of pages! The guy dies and his son takes his corpse back to Magadh and they remove data chip from his thigh and build the robots. Then Emperor Ashoka comes into the story, w/ elephant.

But I was working from synopses, didn't have translation. We may know more shortly!

Ghosts, Monsters, and Demons of India by J. Furcifer Bhairav and Rakesh Khanna 456 pages. 8.25" x 5.5". 600 g Paperback ISBN: 9789380636467 An encyclopedia of evil entities and folkloric fiends from across the country, from Ladakh to Laks...

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Int'l edition:

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Haha awesome

the transnational multilingual geekiness of this whole endeavour just has me grinning ear to ear

Romanised version of the Pali manuscript annotated in French, & now we're trying to get the Pali translated into English, which we're doing with the help of a Marathi translator and a Marathi author who's been studying Pali as part of his interest in Navayana Buddhism, & (2/3)

Romanised Pali manuscript of the Lokapannati

Ghosts, Monsters, and Demons of India p. 60 Bhoota Vahana Yanta Bhoota Vahana Yanta means “spirit movement machine.” The term is used for several varieties of robot drone assassins and sword-wielding machine- men mentioned in the Lokapannati, a Pali-language text written between 1000 and 1200 CE by Saddhammaghosa of Thaton, but concerning events that took place much earlier, around 500 to 200 BCE. According to the story, robots were first invented by engineers of the early Roman Republic. These robots were used for commerce, in agriculture, as a police force, and as executioners. The secret of how to build these spirit-engines was fiercely protected. If any engineer dared to take the designs out of the city, one of his own executioner robots would come after him and kill him. At that time, in Pataliputra (then in the kingdom of Magadha, now Patna in the state of Bihar), there lived a young man who had heard of the Romans’ magical androids. He became so determined to learn the secrets of their manufacture and share them with the people of Magadha that he arranged his own death. Then, on his deathbed, he vowed to be reincarnated as a Roman. This indeed took place. In his new life, the man grew up to join the Roman guild of engineers. He even married the daughter of the Master Robot-Maker, and had a son by her. Once he learned the secrets of the Bhoota Vahana Yanta, the man resolved to transfer the information back to Pataliputra. But he was well aware that now, since he was a member of the guild, he would be killed as soon as he left. So he cut a gash in his thigh, inserted the plans in his flesh, and sewed the wound back up.

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)

Meant for US people only? Or int'l publishers also welcome? @edebell.com

This looks really cool! #ambedkarPhule #indianBooks

being nice to bugs is hot

The Seekers by Gautamiputra Kamble - Translated from the Marathi by Sirus J Libeiro

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.

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Reading this from India where TikTok has been banned for years and I feel like an alien species

The title song is a banger

Gotta do a double feature of this and Khooni Dracula one of these days