Rakesh Khanna
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Books, ghosts, math, marine invertebrates. Co-founder & editor @blaft.bsky.social.
Author of Ghosts, Monsters, and Demons of India
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- Met a guy from Sirmaur district, Himachal Pradesh, who was telling me ghost stories. None of the folklore of this area is included in my Ghosts book and now I feel like I need to do a 3-volume second edition. This country has sooo many demons!!!
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- My son, raised in India, did a year of middle school in California recently, and was horrified at his classmates' understanding of world politics. Many of them apparently thought the communists were allied with the Nazis in WW2, and were unaware that the US was involved in the Vietnam War.
- Reposted by Rakesh KhannaOn now, a StoryBundle curated by our own E.D.E. Bell and including our own The Factory, alongside wonderful, important stories from around the globe, and supporting @globalvoiceslingua.bsky.social. May the light of these stories shine brightly. #BookSky #Translation storybundle.com/translation
- Reposted by Rakesh KhannaWe're doing a zine making shindig at The Bookshop in Vasant Kunj, Delhi on the 6th! Register for ₹299, redeemable against book purchase Come make art and stuph with us pages.razorpay.com/zineswithblaft
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- Reposted by Rakesh KhannaThis is a mask *very* specifically associated with Atomwaffen and Nazi Terrorgram (as OP notes downthread)
- Reposted by Rakesh KhannaWe want ICE abolished and their agents hauled before Nuremberg style tribunals. Anything less is a policy failure.
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- Reposted by Rakesh KhannaExcited and proud to announce that I'm guest editing @tasavvurnama.bsky.social's Spring 2026 issue. Open for your South Asian SFF submissions now till the end of Feb.
- Irl horrors getting you down? Try some made up ones! www.blaft.com/collections/...
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- Reposted by Rakesh Khannasorry but when anyone says "deep sea mining" what I hear is "mass extinction, w/unknown cascade effects, that's extremely difficult to raise public/political will to fight because of media/knowledge realities"
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- Today we are packing India Street Lettering books for Kickstarter backers and a troop of monkeys has launched an assault on our mailroom. Chucking used tape rolls at them to keep them away from the bubble wrap 😂
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- Reposted by Rakesh KhannaOui, c’est abject. Mais arrêter & placer des mômes en rétention car ils sont étrangers, la France fait cela aussi. Elle a même été condamnée 12 fois (!) par la CEDH pour cela. Et aujourd’hui encore, elle continue de le faire à Mayotte. L’inhumanité contre les étrangers n’est pas qu’américaine.
- Trump is evil, but I don't think he's stupid or has dementia. All these facepalms, mixing up Greenland & Iceland, penguins at the North Pole, calling Nepal "Nipple"--all these things are extremely calculated. It's just dark triad racist troll shit, the new fascist flavour. They get off on it.
- From Kuzhali Manickavel's "Some Singular Event", an older story from her first collection. I am a sucker for this sort of abstract/impossible setting #SFFChat
- #SFFChat Q4: Share an excerpt in which setting is important to the scene at a granular level (weather, geography, architecture, etc).
- Calvino's "All At One Point" Beckett's "All Strange Away" Kuzhali Manickavel's Tropicool IcyLand Urban Indian Slum stories I liked the landscapes of Hell in R F Kuang's Katabasis That chapter in QNTM's "There Is No Anti-Memetics Division" where they go to the giant memorial building #SFFChat
- I'm thinking of the stories in some recent anthologies I've worked on and I want to say... By itself setting does practically nothing? Two stories set in a rural village can go in absolutely opposite directions and moods. Same with two stories set in a cyberpunk futurescape. #SFFChat
- Maybe it's my math background but I often really enjoy settings that are null or barely described, where the characters and dialog play out like abstractions on a chalkboard. Or logically impossible settings. #SFFChat
- I'm Rakesh Khanna. I'm not really an SFF author but I edit & publish science fiction, pulp, and speculative fiction, incl. a lot of translations from Indian languages. Plus I cowrote a book on Indian ghosts, monsters, and demons. Affogatos are pretty yummy. #SFFChat
- These animals give me phylum dysphoria. I want to live as an ophiuroid
- The Formidable Goniasterids is the name of my new hyperpop/benthic crustpunk band
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- I really enjoyed this from @premeemohamed.com. A sparklingly weird & spooky fairy tale, especially recommended for anyone who's had a job taking care of other people's children
- The Blaft Anthology of Gujarati Pulp Fiction is 1 year old today! www.blaft.com/products/the... Vintage scifi, crime, horror, supernatural-slasher-thriller, and bar dancer revenge fantasy fiction selected and translated by @vishwambhari.bsky.social
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- Reading this to the kid and we're both totally enjoying it. Go for the Ama$on deal if you really must, but better you can buy it from an Indian indie bookstore: champaca.in/products/the...
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- OK, so Fresno is the *red* part of California. My grandmother's town. Amazing to see this on the streets there.
- There's a ton of stuff on here I want to pre-order ("Black Aliens", Adelehin Ijasan, Sauútiverse, "A History of Indians in Rhodesia"!!) Please buy Blaft books so I can spend more money lol
