Earlier this month we took a trip to Ahmedabad, where we met with veteran pulp authors H.N. Golibar, Bansidhar Shukla, and Ekta Doshi, all of whom will be featured in our Gujarati Pulp Fiction anthology, scheduled for release in December.

The highlight for us was...🧵 learning about the history of the Gujarati magazine and pop culture institution Chakram Chandan--founded as "Chakram" in 1949 by N.J.Golibar, a member of Ahmedabad's Kutchi Memon Muslim community.

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Indra Soundar Rajan was born in Salem, Tamil Nadu. He moved to Madurai in 1980 to work as a dye-maker while writing fiction on the side. In 1990, Indra Soundar Rajan's career as a novelist took off with the success of Kottaipurathu Veedu, translated as “The Palace of Kottaipuram” in The Blaft Anthology of Tamil Pulp Fiction, Vol. II.
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Read six short novels of love... crime.. and interstellar terror in Blaft's Anthology of Tamil Pulp Fiction Vol. 3!!

📖 Selected & translated by Rashmi Ruth Devadasan, Rakesh Khanna, V. Vinod, and @lamrin_r
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blaft.com/collections/ne… 🛸/ "Operation Nova" by Tamilmagan. A large-canvas science fiction story about people being abducted from Earth to join a utopian civilization on the planet Gleise 581b, 50 light years away.

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Hello friends!

This morning's comparative mythology thread will focus on a legendary race of ancient Indian people who....

(drum roll)

had no buttholes. That's right! This venerable tribe was first attested in the book Indica by a Greek fellow named Ctesias of Cnidas, who lived in the 5th century BCE.