How a new book on the role of Buddhism in shaping modern Indian history came to be

How did Buddhism appear, disappear, and reappear in India? Douglas Ober’s book ‘Dust on the Throne’, published by Navayana, answers the question.

S Anand

· Mar 01, 2023 · 08:30 am

Dhrupad has been evicted from Dilli

For decades, Dhrupad had one address in Delhi – 379, Asiad Village. Wasifuddin Dagar’s eviction from the house has severed a treasured link with the past.

S Anand

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Pramathesh Ambasta

· May 24, 2022 · 11:30 am

What this verse from Thiruvalluvar’s ‘Thirukkural’ says about the state’s relationship with farmers

The poet is a prophet. And the prophecy is not good for the king who thinks his parasol is bigger than the farmer’s basket that shades all beings.

S Anand

· Jan 23, 2022 · 08:30 am

First person: How Navayana, publisher of anti-caste literature, was born, and where it is going now

Founder S Anand talks of Navayana’s past, present, and post-pandemic future.

S Anand

· Jul 09, 2020 · 08:30 am

Chronicle of an arrest foretold: As Anand Teltumbde is about to go to jail, an editor pays tribute

S Anand, Teltumbde’s publisher at Navayana, recounts his uncompromising clarity and forthrightness.

S Anand

· Apr 13, 2020 · 08:30 am

Gond art legend Jangarh Singh Shyam killed himself in Japan on this day, July 3, 2001. Why?

An excerpt from Venkat Raman Singh Shyam’s autobiography.

Venkat Raman Singh Shyam

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S Anand

· Jul 03, 2018 · 08:30 am

On Ambedkar's 60th death anniversary, media proved that he was Untouchable in death as in life

There was precious little about the icon in the newspapers or on mainstream websites on Tuesday.

S Anand

· Dec 07, 2016 · 08:00 am

A ghazal that Ghalib did not write for Ambedkar (but could have)

Mirza Ghalib's path did not cross in time with Babasaheb Ambedkar's. But somewhere their thoughts might have merged.

S Anand

· Oct 23, 2016 · 06:30 am

Ten years after Khairlanji: ‘Only retaliatory violence can dislodge the deep-rooted venom of caste'

Had BR Ambedkar asked Dalits to hit back in Mahad in 1927, the Dalit movement would have taken a different course, says scholar Anand Teltumbde in an interview.

S Anand

· Sep 29, 2016 · 08:30 am