Monthly Archives: December 2020

Sudhanva Deshpande on ‘The How of Publishing’

Sudhanva Deshpande, managing editor of Leftword Books, spoke to Bridget Impey of Jacana Media, Johannesburg, on the 8th of December. He talked about our publishing model which projects the interests of the working people and movements for social transformation, and how we link the sales model with innovative ways to sell directly to those markets. See the interview below to learn more about the formation of LeftWord, the starting of our e-commerce website—possibly the first of its kind in Indi[...]

Aijaz Ahmad on Gramsci and Hindutva

For those that brought down the Babri Masjid, it was a symbol of a culture of cruelty, that of the invading Muslims against the Hindus. In its demolition, on the other hand, it has come to represent the exact opposite. In the following extract from an interview of Aijaz Ahmad (AA) by LeftWord’s Chief Editor Vijay Prashad (VP) for our title Nothing Human is Alien to Me, he talks about why European fascism is an inadequate category for understanding the rise of Hindutva, and that to counter this[...]