Publishing for Social Change
Navayana is India’s only publishing house that focuses on caste from an anticaste perspective.
It is inspired by B.R. Ambedkar’s interpretation of Buddhism, and publishes the best of socially engaged writing from India: B.R. Ambedkar, Namdeo Dhasal, Kancha Ilaiah, Gail Omvedt, Meera Nanda, Dilip Menon, Anand Teltumbde.
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June 4, Thursday, 2009
3.30 – 6.30 pm, Indian Social Institute, New Delhi
Cacim and Navayana are organising a public discussion on Internationalising Caste in the wake of the stalling of the caste issue at the Durban Review Conference in Geneva in April 2009. Ashok Bharti (National Confederation of Dalit Organisations, NACDOR); Paul Divakar, (National Council for Dalit Human Rights NCDHR); Colin Gonsalves (Human Rights Law Network, HRLN); Neelabh Mishra (Outlook Hindi); Pamela Philipose (Women’s Feature Service); Praful Bidwai (Senior Journalist), Annie Namala (Director, Centre for Programming Inclusion and Equity), Surinder Jodhka (Director, Indian Institute of Dalit Studies) will speak.
Bhagwan Das: In Pursuit of Ambedkar from Navayana on Vimeo.
Watch a teaser of the Navayana-produced documentary film Bhagwan Das: In Pursuit of Ambedkar. The hour-long film chronicles the life and work of Bhagwan Das, 82, who worked as a research associate with Dr B.R. Ambedkar in 1955-56, and compiled, produced and edited the four-volume Thus Spoke Ambedkar between 1963 and 1980. For a copy of the complete film, contact us.
