Blaft Publications is a new independent publishing house based in Chennai, India. Our releases so far include an anthology of Tamil pulp fiction, a translation of an experimental Tamil novel, a book of drawings, and a book of English short stories. However, in the future, Blaft has much wider goals. We are planning to eventually branch out into translations of fiction from other regional languages of South Asia, English fiction, comic books, graphic novels, children's books, non-fiction, textbooks, how-to-manuals, encyclopedias, and kitchen appliances.

Insects Are Just Like You and Me Except Some of Them Have Wings
by Kuzhali Manickavel

A centipede in a shoe, revelations in a shoebox, nosebleeds, exploding women, and a dead mouse named Miraculous populate this collection of thirty-five short stories from one of India's most original young writers.

"Not merely lyrical and strange, but also deadpan funny. I can't shake the feeling that I know this woman, personally--like we hung out at a party or something. But I don't, and we didn't. She's just that good."
--Miranda July

Price: INDIA Rs 195/- US $7.95
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Zero Degree
by Charu Nivedita
translated by Pritham Chakravarthy and Rakesh Khanna

With its mad patchwork of phone sex conversations, nightmarish torture scenes, tender love poems, numerology, mythology, and compulsive name-dropping of Latin American intellectuals, Charu Nivedita's novel Zero Degree stands out as a groundbreaking work of South Indian transgressive fiction that unflinchingly probes the deepest psychic wounds of humanity.

"Zero Degree takes you apart and allows you to rearrange yourself as you please."
--Asha Menon in New Indian Express

Price: INDIA Rs 315/- US $9.99
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The Blaft Anthology of Tamil Pulp Fiction
selected & translated by Pritham Chakravarthy
edited by Rakesh Khanna

Mad scientists! Desperate housewives! Murderous robots! Scandalous starlets! Sordid, drug-fueled love affairs! This anthology features seventeen stories by ten best-selling authors of Tamil crime, romance, science fiction, and detective stories, none of them ever before translated into English, along with reproductions of wacky cover art and question-and-answer sessions with some of the authors. Grab a masala vadai, sit back and enjoy!

"There are two reasons to buy this book. One, it's a wonderful read and, two, it's the best-produced paperback in the history of Indian publishing."
--Mukul Kesavan in Outlook India

Price: INDIA Rs 395/- US $17.95
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when this key sketch gets real tongue is fork hen is cock
when this key sketch gets real my baby eagle's dream comes true
drawings by Natesh

Chennai-based artist Natesh is perhaps better known for his installation artworks and colorful paintings, which have recently been exhibited in New Delhi. This collection of some seventy ink drawings of surreal combinations of hands, women, fish, tigers, eagles, and rhinoceroses showcases the amazing things Natesh can do with a simple black line.

Price: INDIA Rs 395/- US $17.95
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About Us


Rashmi Ruth Devadasan
Rashmi's ideal world would be made up of rows of bookshelves and stacks of DVDs. She has been working with Director Gautham Menon since his first film Minnale, and besides being part of BLAFT, she does theatre, writes and is working towards making her first film.


Kaveri Lalchand
Kaveri is an apparel manufacturer & exporter and a fashion designer by profession. She has a passion and fascination for theatre, dance, the culinary arts, travel, meditation, old buildings, people and books.

Contact

Blaft Publications Pvt. Ltd., 27 Lingam Complex,
     Dhandeeswaram Main Road, Velachery,
     Chennai 600042. India.


Phone: +91 98843 06144
+91 98840 06145

+91 98405 30269
Email : blaft@blaft.com
Web : www.blaft.com