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...

THE BLAFT BOOK OF ANTI-CASTE SF is one year old today! www.blaft.com/products/the...

“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-...

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 www.blaft.com/collections/...

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/...

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...

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

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...

But it has hypercomplex nonassociative algebras and monstrous moonshine and a line segment named Yes-In-Deedy

Anti-bigotry posters up in our hood 🙌

All this for only $5.51. Doesn't this sound delightful?

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 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...

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

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/...

The people working on this project seem extremely cool. Sifiso Mzobe, the isiZulu translator, writes great crime fiction. Zukiswa Wanner, the Shona translator, was on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla and spent time in Israeli custody -- super brave! Support support support

Reboosting this excerpt from Rashmi Ruth Devadasan's "The Legend of Rani Grace" scroll.in/article/1086... One of the seven strange & horrible stories in "Bandigoat" Available at excellent indie bookshops champaca.in/products/ban...

We have events for THE SEEKERS lined up! Gautamiputra Kamble & Sirus J Libeiro will be at Mehrab in Kochi 14/12, Dogears in Goa 19/12, and the NCPA in Mumbai 2/1. More details soon! www.blaft.com/products/the...

Weird horror! Speculative fiction against the caste system! A ghost encyclopedia!! Gujarati ghost possession slasher stories in translation!!! A Nigerian soyyaya novel!!!!! Folktales from Mizoram!!!!!!!! Ebooks!!!!!!!!!!!!! Graphic novels!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! www.blaft.com/collections/...

It's Cameron Johnston's birthday! Celebrate by leaving a review for any book by any author that you enjoyed or even by placing a pre-order for a book you know you're going to buy anyway. Both these things REALLY help authors in the current market.

ANYWAY Buy from small businesses Buy from independent creators Buy passion projects Buy commissions Buy art In a society that's decided that money is final word, be aware of where yours goes and to support what Yes it sucks, I don't like it either, but pretending it's not a thing does not help!

Our webstore has zines & comics by a bunch of other amazing indie publishers -- Bakarmax, Kokaachi, Larchtongue & more Indo-Japanese manga compilations, a graphic novel about the Naxalite insurgency, a zine about queer marriage in India, a comic about lobsters.... www.blaft.com/collections/...

As we inch ever closer to making the INDIA STREET LETTERING book www.blaft.com/products/ind... a beautiful object everyone can hold and flip through, I’m so darn happy to see a sneak peek being featured in the one and only @creativeboom.com 👉🏼 www.creativeboom.com/resources/wh.... @blaft.bsky.social

"Horror with a crooked grin" The Hindu has Bandigoat on their November reading list! (Which they released on Nov 28? Hope y'all can speedread!) www.thehindu.com/books/popula...

Booked a table for Goa Zine Fest Jan 17-18. Excite!

Any book w Kuzhali’s stories is an instant buy for me

"Horror with a crooked grin" The Hindu has Bandigoat on their November reading list! (Which they released on Nov 28? Hope y'all can speedread!) www.thehindu.com/books/popula...

Bestseller on Ama$on in November: "India's First Graphic Novel", Orijit Sen's RIVER OF STORIES. You can also buy it on our site, you know! Free shipping within India! Or get it from your neighbourhood indie bookshop! www.blaft.com/products/riv...

Doing this thing in Bengaluru next Saturday, Dec 6. Some of our favourite writers and comics people are going to come. Do join! Flyer by DeadTheDuck!

Kokaachi comics now available in our OTHER INDIE STUFF! store www.blaft.com/collections/...

R T Samuel and Rahee Punyashloka talk Anti-Caste SF on "Race Matters" www.fbi.radio/programs/rac...

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! www.blaft.com/collections/...

Zines from the zine store: interdimensional portals -- robots in faraway xeric ecosystems -- supernatural entities in the dak bungalow www.blaft.com/collections/...

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" www.blaft.com/collections/... Click here to buy the book: www.blaft.com/products/the...

The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF gets a shout-out at the end! "both marker and manifesto"

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.

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...

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? www.blaft.com/collections/...

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: helterskelter.in/2025/04/book...

Cover illustration by Appupen!

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 www.patreon.com/c/postprandi...