Pulp Fiction from India presented by Blaft Publications

At the time of India's independence in 1947, only about 12% of the population was literate. Today that figure is over 80%. To satisfy this hungry population of one billion new readers, there's been an explosion of crime novels, horror writing, science fiction stories, kitschy romance, noir, and supernatural thrillers--in nearly every one of the country's 22 official languages. Blaft Publications, an independent publishing house from Chennai, has been hunting down the wildest & craziest of these stories and translating them into English for a local and global audience. Join editors Rakesh Khanna and Rashmi Ruth Devadasan for a discussion of Tamil-language detective duos, Urdu-language supervillains, and their latest release, The Blaft Anthology of Gujarati Pulp Fiction. There will also be a slideshow of incredibly wacky pulp cover art from all over the country!

Rashmi Ruth Devadasan is a writer with over twenty-five years of experience in indie publishing, feature…