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Uma Shirodkar

@umashirodkar.bsky.social

She/her, Lit translator (Marathi-English), editor, language educator, weird/horror fiction fiend ✨

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Blaft Publications@blaft.bsky.social · last wk.

We just signed an agreement for translation rights to a classic Indian horror story that is pretty famous, but has never appeared in English before. A lot of you might know it even if you haven't read it. *suspense* Announcement soon!

Pete Birkinshaw@binaryape.bsky.social · 2mo ago

English ghosts are usually something like “A gray lady walks from this room to that room, then looks out of the window. If you see her you get quite a shock”. Indian ghosts are like:

Hemmalati When seven pregnant she-buffaloes AND seven pregnant human women all die at exactly the same moment, a Balishtamar called Hemmalati comes into existence.* This spirit takes the shape of a human woman with a single breast. She lives in dense jungles. If a man should happen to encounter a Hemmalati in the forest, the Hemmalati will ask him for some betel-leaf and betel-nut to chew. When the man hands it to her, she pretends to accidentally drop it to the forest floor. As the man bends to retrieve it for her, she removes her huge breast from her blouse and flops it onto his head. At this moment the traveler gets struck with a frightful panic. He runs back home as fast as he can, but once he gets there, he is stricken with fever. At night he dreams horrifying nightmares, and soon he begins vomiting blood. The intervention of a spiritual healer may save the afflicted person from a quick death. But it is said that no one who meets the Hemmalati will survive longer than three years, even with the best efforts of the most skilled doctor
Blaft Publications@blaft.bsky.social · 6mo ago

OK Global Southern Bluesky, let's go: share your most beloved non-Anglophone pop culture franchises. We want to know about the Nepali romance novels, the Khmer superhero comics, the Guatemalan detective movies, the Malawian ghost hunter cartoons. Or whatever's out there. Please boost!