What is Blaft? Blaft is an amazing new independent publishing house, based in Chennai, that successfully launched itself into the realm of exploratory literature and art, on 
So, who started Blaft? Two extremely versatile, excited, and happy characters: Rashmi Ruth Devadasan lives a life of cinema, theatre, and writing. Her ideal world would be rows of bookshelves and DVDs She has worked with Director Gautam Menon since his first film Minnale, and is an active part of The Perch Collective. Kaveri Lalchand is an apparel manufacturer and exporter, and a fashion designer. She is passionate about theatre, dance, the culinary arts, travel, old buildings, meditation, people and books. What have they published?
The Blaft Anthology of Tamil Pulp Fiction
selected & translated by Pritham Chakravarthy
edited by Rakesh Khanna
Cover illustration by Shyam
Cover design by Malavika PC
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!
List of authors: Suba; Rajesh Kumar; Vidya Subramaniam; Indra Soundar Rajan; Ramanichandran; Pattukkottai Prabakar; Tamizhvanan; Pushpa Thangadorai; Brajanand V.K.; Resakee
Price: INDIA Rs 395/- US $17.95
India: Order from Landmark Bookstores
Outside India: Pre-order from Amazon.com
Zero Degree
by Charu Nivedita
translated by Pritham K Chakravarthy
edited by Rakesh Khanna
Cover design and illustration by Malavika PCWith 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
Price: India Rs 315/ - US $9.99 India: Order from Landmark Bookstores Outside India: Pre-order from Amazon.com
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 Outside India: Pre-order from Amazon.com
Each book delves into strange, bizarre and brilliant worlds. This is a feast for the every reader’s mind. Blaft plans to keep growing and casting purple eyes on strange stories, dreams, and worlds. In future, they are planning on translations of fiction from various South Asian regions, English fiction, comic books, graphic novels, children's books, non-fiction, textbooks, how-to-manuals, encyclopaedias, and kitchen appliances, Wonder which world they may capture in their forthcoming publications.
Catch the Blafters on www.blaft.com 27 Lingam Complex,
