Book Excerpts

In ‘Caste Pride: Battle for Equality in Hindu India’, Manoj Mitta analyses the historic characters, speeches and decisions that shaped India’s war on caste.

In 'Becoming Babasaheb: The Life and Times of Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (Volume I)', Aakash Singh Rathore explores Ambedkar’s personality beyond his intellectual pursuits.

Ashok Gopal’s A Part Apart: The Life and Thought of B.R. Ambedkar, the first complete biography of Ambedkar published by Navayana on the eve of the 132nd birth anniversary, sheds new light on the Ambedkar–Gandhi debate by paying attention to Ambedkar’s writings in Marathi on the Poona Pact and his evolving views on Gandhi.

Located at a small village temple in Andhra Pradesh, this Shiva linga is carved from highly polished, reddish-brown rock and is enclosed in an apsidal sanctum, or garbhagriha.

In Banned & Censored, Devika Sethi explores and compiles banned literature from the British colonial era to show exactly how merciless and tactful censorship was.

In ‘Transforming the Steel Frame’, Vinod Rai examines the roles and responsibilities of Indian bureaucracy in modern times.

In 'Hurt Sentiments', Neeti Nair reveals the growing disjuncture between faith in the state ideology of secularism, in theory and praxis.

In 'I Have Autism and I Like To Play Good Bad Tennis', Debashis Paul narrates anecdotes from his life as a father with an autistic son.

In 'Bells of Shangri-La, Parimal Bhattacharya explores the stories of British espionage into Tibet to trace the Brahmaputra.

In ‘Hyderabad Heist’, Sharmishtha Shenoy tells the untold story behind India’s biggest museum theft.