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Blaft Publications @blaft.bsky.social · 6h

Yesterday's launch in Coimbatore was a smash success! Tonight @ Lightroom! Tomorrow @ Champaca!

Kuzhali Manickavel supernatural entities book tour
Oct 9 @ 6 pm Kaadambarai Coimbatore w Vinayak Varma
Oct 10 @ 6:30 pm Lightroom, Bengaluru w Kavya Murthy
Oct 11 @ 6 pm Champaca, Bengaluru w Shalini Srinivasan
Oct 16 @ 7 pm The Lab @ Shanta, Chennai w Mimi Mondal (snacks at 6:30!)
Oct 17 @ 4:30 pm The Farm on OMR, Chennai w Rashmi R.D.
Oct 25 @ 6 pm Beku, Bengaluru w Vinayak Varma

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Blaft Publications @blaft.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

There are a few! Come to all of them! Bring lots of people! 😁

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Blaft Publications @blaft.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

More Bengaluru things happening this week! Readings from HOMOSEXUAL INTIFADA RSVP: forms.gle/VQkP53QggjRw...

Hello folks 👋🏾

Honouring the queer Palestinians --- invisiblised, pushed to the margins, exploited in the name of a genocide. This October 7th we will hold a shared reading, to amplify their voices, to hear their truths.

In the ruins of a centuries-old city, a soldier waves the pride flag. His grin is bright and ebullient. The flag is a vibrant, flimsy flutter, emblazoned with the words "In the name of love".

You cannot destroy a people and say it is love. You cannot destroy a people and say it is for us. Queer, trans and allied people stand with Palestine. We deserve the dignity of telling our stories, our way.

Our intention is to hold space for resistance for the Imperalist and Zionist occupation in Gaza and West Bank through collective reading of Homosexual Intifada: A Queer Palestinian Anthology, edited by Hannah Moushabeck & George Abraham.

Please register to RSVP:
https://forms.gle/VQkP53QggjRwrHVU6

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Blaft Publications @blaft.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

With 200 pages of eyepopping full-colour multiscript signage, Pooja Saxena's INDIA STREET LETTERING is the perfect gift for the Indophile flaneur-typographer in your life www.blaft.com/products/ind...

Aggarwal Hardware - Chowk Hauz Qazi. A signboard from INDIA STREET LETTERING (c) Pooja Saxena

Azad Band wedding trolly from Lucknow. From INDIA STREET LETTERING (c) Pooja Saxena

Neerav -- Painted Boat in Kochi Harbour (c) Pooja Saxena

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Blaft Publications @blaft.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Aside from the several Kuzhali Manickavel book launches coming up this month, we will also be tabling at these two events in Bengaluru, which are gonna be hella stalactacular

Blaft @ Kittenpop Experiences @ The Hummingtree @ Bengaluru @ 3pm @ 4th October. Kittenpop with Deluxe Thali. Poster features a picture of a ctenophore by Luca Davenport-Thomas (CC-BY). Ctenophores are distinct from jellyfish (which are in a different phylum, Cnidaria, with corals and stuff.)

Blaft Publications will be at Maya Bazaar, 10th-11th Oct @ The Lalit Ashok Bengaluru

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Blaft Publications @blaft.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Or buy the EPUB direct from us: www.blaft.com/collections/... (We need to reprint the Indian edition -- coming soon -- even sooner if yougaiz spend some money on our website 😅) This book features Tamil lovers in Jaisalmer, corpses in coconut groves, Barack Obama & Angelina Jolie in space...

The Tamil Pulp Fiction book on a table with interesting doilies made of dried grass and what appears to be a carved wooden bunch of poovan bananas

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Blaft Publications @blaft.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Avoid Amαƶon, support indie bookshops / indie publishers if at all possible... but if for some reason you MUST use Amαƶon, TAMIL PULP FICTION VOLUME 3 is now (finally) available in the Kindle store again www.amazon.com/dp/B0758H6J21 (and the print edition in the USA) www.amazon.com/dp/9380636253

The Blaft Anthology of Tamil Pulp Fiction, Vol. III. Front cover shows a cyborg village lass wearing a half-sari and toting an aruval (billhook). There's a ribbon in her hair and a lightning storm in the background

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Blaft Publications @blaft.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"Creepy atmosphere and fantastic creature feature" (Goodreads review) In the Sikkimese folk horror tale "THE MIRROR OF THE MUNG" by Lungmying Lepcha, a demon sends the corpses of his victims stumbling home to tell the story of their demise before collapsing again! www.blaft.com/products/ban...

Bandigoat: A Collection of Strange & Horrible Tales, ed. Rakesh Khanna

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Blaft Publications @blaft.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Free shipping within India!! www.blaft.com/collections/...

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Blaft Publications @blaft.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"...these anthologies deceptively and admirably unsettle Eurocentric notions of both literature and culture... and do so with plenty of lust, crime, blood, and guts" —Alice Robinson, Southpaw www.blaft.com/collections/... www.blaft.com/collections/...

The Blaft Anthology of Gujarati Pulp Fiction

The Blaft Anthology of Tamil Pulp Fiction Vol. 1

The Blaft Anthology of Tamil Pulp Fiction Vol. 2

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Blaft Publications @blaft.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

LAUNCH EVENTS For Kuzhali Manickavel's A COMPENDIUM OF SUPERNATURAL ENTITIES FOUND IN THE GOVERNMENT GIRLS HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOL in Coimbatore Oct 9, Benaglure Oct 10 & 11 Chennai dates later in October TBA!

Kuzhali Manickavel in conversation with Vinayak Varma @ Kaadambari, Coimbatore, 6 pm October 9

Kuzhali Manickavel in conversation with Kavya Murthy @ Lightroom, Bengaluru, 6:30 pm October 10

Kuzhali Manickavel in conversation with Shalini Srinivasan @ Champaca, Bengaluru, 6 pm October 11

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Blaft Publications @blaft.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Or if you want to read something now-now order up some Minty Fresh Export-Quality Aadi Velli Special Non-Cola Cola! Learn how to instigate violence against Gentoo penguins! Play the Statue Game! www.blaft.com/products/thi...

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Blaft Publications @blaft.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Blaft means "bark" (i.e., like a dog) in Dutch. We didn't know that when we named the company. Now that our books are getting sold in stores in Amsterdam and Rotterdam... I feel like it's a pretty good-sounding name for a publishing house, in Dutch? www.donner.nl/producten/th...

A page from Boekhandel Donner's website showing Blaft books for sale

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Blaft Publications @blaft.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

While you're waiting for the novel: order the story collections, order the zines! www.blaft.com/collections/...

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Blaft Publications @blaft.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Pre-order A COMPENDIUM OF SUPERNATURAL ENTITIES FOUND IN THE GOVERNMENT GIRLS HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOL! Releasing October 6! www.blaft.com/collections/...

Drawnk's cover for A COMPENDIUM OF SUPERNATURAL ENTITIES FOUND IN THE GOVERNMENT GIRLS HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOL by Kuzhali Manikcavel

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Blaft Publications @blaft.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Someone trained AIs on our anthologies of Indian-language pulp fiction. Now the characters are about to become self-aware, and may pose an existential risk to humanity! Please buy copies to fund our Marathi anthology to keep the Tamil & Gujarati characters in check! www.blaft.com/collections/...

The Blaft Anthology of Gujarati Pulp Fiction, selected and translated by Vishwambhari S Parmar

The Blaft Anthology of Tamil Pulp Fiction, selected and translated by Pritham K Chakravarthy

The Blaft Anthology of Tamil Pulp Fiction Vol. 2, selected and translated by Pritham K Chakravarthy

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Blaft Publications @blaft.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Ebooks ebooks ebooks! Folktales from Tamil Nadu! Soyayya from Nigeria! Monster myths from Mizoram! Anti-caste cyberhorror and solarpunk! Ghostlore! Vintage Indian pulp fiction! www.blaft.com/collections/...

Where Are You Going, You Monkeys? by Ki. Rajanarayanan, translated from Tamil by Pritham K. Chakravarthy

The Blaft Book of Anti-Caste SF, ed. by R. T. Samuel et al.

Sin Is a Puppy That Follows You Home by Balaraba Ramat Yakubu

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Blaft Publications @blaft.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

We have been selling some zines and comics from other indie Indian creators on the OTHER INDIES! page on our website www.blaft.com/collections/... Please explore & boost & shop! Help us place larger orders and keep these excellent books/comix/zines in print!

Amar Bari Tomar Bari Naxalbari by Sumit Kumar... A comix history of India's Maoist insurgency

This Body is Not a Temple by Priyanka Paul... Just read this and get your ideas about gender and religion sorted

Pooja Saxena / Matratype's "Cinemas of Lucknow" accordion typography zine

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Blaft Publications @blaft.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

We ship worldwide! Low rates! www.blaft.com/collections/... Ebooks also available! www.blaft.com/collections/...

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Blaft Publications @blaft.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The Zo tribes of NE India have a long history of resisting empire; of being, in the best sense, ungovernable. This fiercely independent streak is obvious in the lore of the Mizo people--with their unique creation myth, fierce monsters, and cave-dwelling hidden folk www.blaft.com/products/miz...

Mizo Myths, 2nd Ed., by Cherrie Lalnunziri Chhangte

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Blaft Publications @blaft.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Or perhaps you fancy a trip to gentle ASTEROID SUCCULENTIOUS where botanist robots enjoy rainshowers of sulfur and carbon doughnuts as they cavort amongst the Caryophyllales www.blaft.com/collections/...

Sample collectors with carbon doughnuts and cacti

Sarcophagus sample collector among cacti with sulfur rain

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Blaft Publications @blaft.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

#1YearAgo "Beautifully produced and curated" --Sneha Pathak on GUJARATI PULP FICTION, selected and translated by @vishwambhari.bsky.social strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no... Link to buy print: www.blaft.com/products/the... Ebook: www.blaft.com/products/the...

Nabi H. Ali's cover design for THE BLAFT ANTHOLOGY OF GUJARATI PULP FICTION

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Blaft Publications @blaft.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

"As a token of our appreciation, we would like to present you with a special something" www.blaft.com/collections/...

An excerpt from "You Have Us All Late and Follow"

"As a token of our appreciation, we would like to present you with a special something."

The kidney thief unfurls a newspaper and clears her throat.

"You Have Always Been Late," she reads.

"What?"

"It works better if you write it down. Write it on your hand or something."

"I don't have a pen."

"I'll repeat it if you like. You Follow and Make Us Late All the Time."

"That's not what you said the first time."

"Write it down, why aren't you writing this down?"

Puratchimani's Mess sinks deeper into the sand, burying the kidney thief up to the neck.

"You Follow what?" I ask. "What did you say?

The sand shudders and heaves, swallowing the kidney thief along with Puratchimani's Mess.

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Blaft Publications @blaft.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Available in our OTHER INDIE STUFF! section: comix and zines from Sumit Kumar (Bakarmax), Priyanka Paul (Artwhoring), Larchtongue, and Aditi Mali (GoodBadComics) www.blaft.com/collections/...

Amar Bari Tomar Bari Naxalbari by Sumit Kumar

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Blaft Publications @blaft.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Weretigers, cyborgs, item fish www.blaft.com/collections/...

Mizo Myths by Cherrie Lalnunziri Chhangte

You Go Man, Why Me? by Kuzhali Manickavel

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Blaft Publications @blaft.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Print books! www.blaft.com/collections/... Ebooks! www.blaft.com/collections/... Zines & comics from other indie creators! www.blaft.com/collections/... Help us get to the New Delhi World Book Fair this January! Pick up some vintage Indian pulp, weird fiction, ghostlore, & antifascist numerology

A bunch of Blaft books: Gujarati Pulp Fiction, The Aayakudi Murders, India Street Lettering, Antifascist Numerology, Insects Are Just Like You and Me, River of Stories, etc.

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Blaft Publications @blaft.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Blaft books on display at Boekhandel Donner in Amsterdam!

A display of Tamil & Gujarati Pulp Fiction, Kuzhali Manickavel books, and Ghosts, Monsters, and Demons of India

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Blaft Publications @blaft.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

"The best-produced paperback in the history of Indian publishing" --Outlook Magazine, 2008 (It's been a few years and there've been a few reprints, but it's still a fun ride!) Hard-boiled detectives! Vengeful goddesses! Murderous robots! Drug-fuelled love affairs! www.blaft.com/collections/...

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Blaft Publications @blaft.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

You too can be a satisfied mantis! www.blaft.com/collections/...

A bunch of Blaft books including Gujarati Pulp Fiction, River of Stories, Bandigoat, The Aayakudi Murders, and Stupid Guy Goes to India

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Blaft Publications @blaft.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

May we recommend www.blaft.com/products/sin... www.blaft.com/collections/... www.blaft.com/products/the...

The Blaft Anthology of Tamil Pulp Fiction

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Blaft Publications @blaft.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Jeez ok fine We publish minority-tradition Indian folklore and graphic novels and books about women with monster boyfriends and (COMING SOON) queer coming-of-age novels about haunted schools www.blaft.com/collections/...

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Blaft Publications @blaft.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Boats, trucks, hardware stores, band trolleys, British-era monuments, dress shops... Pooja Saxena's INDIA STREET LETTERING brings typographic inspiration from all quarters! www.blaft.com/products/ind...

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Blaft Publications @blaft.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Apparently PW only gives starred reviews to about 5% of the books they review. So this is a big deal for our author's international reputation, and we're going to keep gloating! If you haven't yet experienced Manickavel's splendiferous bonkersness, please dive in: www.blaft.com/collections/...

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Blaft Publications @blaft.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Publisher's Weekly has given Kuzhali Manickavel's novel a ⭐🌟STARRED REVIEW🌟⭐ www.publishersweekly.com/9781915998866 Pre-order the Indian edition here: www.blaft.com/products/a-c... International edition from @angryrobotbooks.bsky.social: angryrobotbooks.com/books/a-revi...

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Blaft Publications @blaft.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Our Tamil and Gujarati Pulp Fiction anthologies bring the best vintage Indian detective, horror, crime, scifi & romance to English readers Translators @umashirodkar.bsky.social & Sirus Libeiro are working on a Marathi antho for next year! Print & ebooks available! www.blaft.com/collections/...

Gujarati Pulp Fiction translated by Vishwambhari S Parmar

Tamil Pulp Fiction selected & translated by Pritham K Chakravarthy

Tamil Pulp Fiction Vol. 2 selected & translated by Pritham K Chakravarthy

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Blaft Publications @blaft.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Ebooks are $5 US yougaiz!! www.blaft.com/collections/...

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Conversations Regarding the Fatalistic Outlook of the Common Man

I Watch Indian Cinema!!! by Kuzhali Manickavel (c) 2023
K: I’m having a Man With The Pipe Movie Marathon.
S: Is that porn? You’re doing a porn marathon?
K: No, it’s all these old movies that have The Man With The Pipe in them. You know, that guy with the gray hair, suspenders, moustache, pipe. He sort of just stands on large winding staircases and says ‘Jolly good!’ or ‘I say you get out!’
S: Oh right! I saw a movie where this dude also stole radioactive things that looked like tubelights and hid them in his briefcase.
K: I saw a movie where he kept whipping his wife with his belt.
S: His pants didn’t fall down?
K: No, he’s got suspenders, remember?
S: So he’s smart AND sexy!
K: There was this scene where he’s whipping his wife and she’s hugging his legs and he’s trying to shake her off, like ‘Get off me so I can whip you better.’
S: I’ve never understood that, why would you grab the legs of someone who wants to whip you to death?
K: I know, right? And you know what the Leg-Hugging Woman says? She says ‘You can beat me, kick me, even kill me. But please just tell me what I did to deserve this.’
S: That is fucking amazing.
K: Then things get very complicated. First the Hero slaps the Heroine because she’s arrogant and speaks English and wears pants. Then she falls in love with him and starts wearing saris.

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Blaft Publications @blaft.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Browse our collection of Tamil pulp fiction in English translation, Gujarati pulp fiction in English translation, ghost encyclopedias, folklore, graphic novels, monsterlove picture books, & more www.blaft.com/collections/...

The Blaft Anthology of Gujarati Pulp Fiction selected & translated by Vishwambhari S Parmar

The Blaft Anthology of Tamil Pulp Fiction Vol. 2 selected & translated by Pritham K Chakravarthy

Ghosts, Monsters, and Demons of India by J Furcifer Bhairav & Rakesh Khanna

First Night: A woman in bridal jewellery and red sari gives a glass of haldi doodh to her green spiky toothy groom

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Blaft Publications @blaft.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Vanakkam! Does anyone know any BRYOLOGISTS? We are looking for someone who has researched moss species in South India (Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala, Telangana, and Andhra Pradesh) to collaborate with us on a small project. Kindly DM. Mikka Nandri!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntrichia_ruralis#/media/File:Drehzahnmoos_Tortula_ruralis.jpg This is a cosmopolitan moss, picture not from South India, bc I can't find any South Indian mosses on Wikimedia

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Blaft Publications @blaft.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

UK design enthusiasts! INDIA STREET LETTERING by Pooja Saxena is back in stock at BLAG!! shop.bl.ag/products/ind...

A spread from INDIA STREET LETTERING of neon cinema signs: Sangeet, Elite, Imperial

A spread from INDIA STREET LETTERING of Kolkata bus signage: 24-24A-24B, 71 Salt Lake, etc

Hotel Hindustan (c) Pooja Saxena from India Street Lettering

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Blaft Publications @blaft.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

These were released many years ago now, but since we still get asked: Yes, these books are in English! They contain stories and novellas *translated* from Tamil and Gujarati pulp magazines! They also contain colour plates of original cover art! www.blaft.com/collections/...

Gujarati Pulp Fiction, selected and translated by Vishwambhari S Parmar

Tamil Pulp Fiction, selected and translated by Priham K Chakravarthy

Tamil Pulp Fiction Vol. 2, selected and translated by Pritham K Chakravarthy

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Blaft Publications @blaft.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

THE BLAFT BOOK OF ANTI-CASTE SF available in Sydney from Magenta House! Super pics on their site of the books with geodes shop.magentahouse.com.au/products/the...

THE BLAFT BOOK OF ANTI-CASTE SF open to Prachi Singh's story "Sand, Stone, Shatter". There are two geodes placed on the book holding it open

THE BLAFT BOOK OF ANTI-CASTE SF open to Gautam Vegda's "Supernova" and "The Extinction"

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Blaft Publications @blaft.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

One of Blaft's co-founders is slightly obsessed with drawing triangular-prism- and sarcophagus-shaped botanist robots on an asteroid covered with space cacti Perhaps you will also enjoy this art www.blaft.com/collections/...

Some prism sample collectors among cactuses on a red field.

A sarcophagus-shaped sample collector among cactuses.

A rare meteorological phenomenon! A shower of carbon doughnut holes and sulfur pearl slime! Whee! There goes a sarcophagus sample collector

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Blaft Publications @blaft.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Gujarati covers of H N Golibar and Kanu Bhagdev novels by illustrator G Sandhwani (6/7)

Gujarati Novel "Janamtip" (Life Sentence) by H N Golibar

"Mission" by Kanu Bhagdev, front cover by G Sandhwani. Shows a lady and a guy with a gun, and a colourful staircase

"Nafrat" (Hatred) by Kanu Bhagdev, cover by G Sandhwani. A lady in a yellow top holds her hair. Behind her, a man in an orange suit is discovering a dead guy in a red suit

Padkaar ("Challenge") by Kanu Bhagdev. Cover by G Sandhwani. A girl's face is a gun, there's an eye and a candle and some bullets

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Blaft Publications @blaft.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Marathi covers of the pulp magazine "Menaka" (artists unknown) (5/7)

Menaka magazine cover -- A girl in a short skirt holds a bottle of liquor festively

An issue of Menaka. A couple posed sexily on a rock near some water. I think the lady is supposed to be the Apsara Menaka and the guy might be Vishwakarma?

Menaka Cover with a black and white photo of an actress (I should probably know her name but I don't) posing seductively in front of a splash of radiating pink, blue, and purple lines

A cover of Menaka Magazine showing a lady in a sari with the night sky behind her, turning to look towards the viewer, but slightly above us

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