In the first annual Navayana lecture series, Navayana, which turns six on 5 November, is delighted to present Slavoj Žižek – maverick marxist from Slovenia, “the Elvis of cultural theory”. He shall be in India from 2 Jan to 9 Jan 2010, participating in two public events in Delhi and one each in Hyderabad and Kochi. His tour shall coincide with the Navayana edition of his latest book, First and Tragedy, Then as Farce. There will also be pre-event shows – film screenings, launches, discussions. A tentative schedule of Žižek’s public engagements in India figures in the poster above.

Around the same time, five new Navayana titles  shall also be launched: in the Other Headings series Michel Foucault’s Abnormal: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1974–75; Jacques Rancière’s The Future of the Image; Pierre Bourdieu’s Political Interventions: Social Science and Political Action. In our Ambedkar-related books, veteran Ambedkarite Bhagwan Das’s memoir In Pursuit of Ambedkar (accompanied by a DVD of the documentary feature on him), and for the first ever time, an annotated edition of Dr Ambedkar’s speeches, a revised edition of the Bhagwan Das-edited Thus Spoke Ambedkar Volume 1. A New Year bonanza awaits all. For more, watch this space.