Up to 50% off—Navayana’s Year-End Sale
I am not a poet like me
Nothing is complete for now
Even now is in the middle
Like a Bible without punctuation.
In 2024, Navayana made waves and swept awards. As the anniversary of Manusmriti Burning Day approaches, when Babasaheb Ambedkar burnt a copy of an ancient code that upheld inequality in Mahad on 25 December 1927, we bring in some warm news. We urge our readers to think to why a man who built a house for his 50,000 books (Rajgriha) decided to burn a copy of one book.
To warm you up and to get you to think against inequality, we have a grand sale—30 to 50 per cent discount on all our titles from 20 December 2024 to 5 January 2025.
Here is all that we got up to this year.
The year began with our re-issue of Annihilation of Caste (Rs 199, now Rs 140) as a reader-friendly lite edition with Vikrant Bhise’s artwork on the cover. We published a ten-book EverBlue series which collects classics from Navayana’s backlist, reissued with all-new design to reflect twenty years of our publishing journey. Soumyabrata Choudhury, philosopher and teacher from JNU, wrote a discerning theoretical and moral treatise on the war in Palestine, Thoughts of Gaza Far from Gaza (Rs 299 now Rs 175).
We also added three new acclaimed academic books to our list. Andrew McDowell’s Breathless: Tuberculosis, Inequality, and Care in Rural India (Rs 599, now Rs 399) shows how people from Dalit and Adivasi communities in rural Rajasthan deal with tuberculosis in the absence of medical care. The struggles of Dalit families to avail the Prevention of Atrocities Act in a judicial system stacked against them is powerfully captured by Sandhya Fuchs in The Fragile Life of the Atrocities Act: Seeking Justice against Caste Crimes (Rs 599, now Rs 450).
Rhys Machold’s After 26/11: India, Palestine/Israel, and the Fabrication of Homeland Security (Rs 699, now Rs 499) takes us to the shadowy world of the homeland security industry, where the author finds how approaches to Indian security were transformed in the wake of the 26/11 attacks.
Jeremy Seabrook author and journalist who published two books with Navayana passed away on 30 November this year. He spent his life writing about capitalism, class, inequality and its effects around the world. Get the last few copies of his book The Song of the Shirt (Rs 495, now Rs 250) on our website.
Our authors were lauded around the world for their writings. Shailaja Paik, author of The Vulgarity of Caste (Rs 599, now Rs 450) was awarded the prestigious MacArthur ‘Genius’ grant for her work on Dalit Tamasha women. Yamini Narayanan found herself nominated for a slew of awards for her affecting work, Mother Cow, Mother India: A Multispecies Politics of Dairy (Rs 599, now Rs 299). The book was shortlisted for the Crossword Book Award 2024, and it won the 2024 ASAA Mid-Career Researcher Book Prize. Mother Cow, Mother India has also been awarded the South Asian Studies Association of Australia President’s Book Prize for 2024.
Ashok Gopal’s A Part Apart: The Life and Thought of B.R. Ambedkar (Rs 999, now Rs 650) a sprawling and meticulously written biography of Babasaheb, was awarded the Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize 2024.
Only the clergy would put
Commas and periods and chapter headings
Where there is none
As a gesture of sharing around this modest bounty, we have this sale. Visit our website and get your anti-caste fix today!
Despite the record-breaking year, we still depend on readers like you to keep us afloat. You can lend us direct support by clicking on this link (and drop us an email to get a receipt).
There is emptiness
Void erected by overcoming
The plenitude that is not mine
And don’t forget to match your wits with A/nil—who helps you find both emptiness and plenitude for just Rs 199 (not Rs 399). Color your senses with The Absent Color. Learn from him how every flower is a smile to the sun.
