Summary of this article

Twenty-five years in, LeftWord shows how Left publishing in India has resisted erasure through dissent and solidarity in a right-wing climate.

By backing its backlist and building alternative distribution networks, LeftWord pushes against market-driven silence in publishing.

Feminist and regional presses alongside LeftWord keep political truth alive, even when telling it comes at a cost.

Recently, I found myself absorbed in Stranger in My Own Land – written by Farid Khan and translated into English by Jerry Pinto - a book that lays bare what it means to feel alienated in the very place you call home. “It is my experience that when a mobile phone rings on a train, no one uses the greeting ‘Salaam’ anymore. Not in a railway compartment,” writes Khan. The line

See Full Page