LeftWord Books

LeftWord Books is a New Delhi-based publishing house that seeks to reflect the views of the left in India and South Asia.

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We are an independent publishing house, and driven by values, not profit.

Our commitment is to build communities, not commodities.

Our books are meant to contribute to the struggles to build a better society.

Therefore, we deserve your support.

-LeftWord Books-

[M A Baby @MABABYCPIM]

Deeply shocked and saddened by the razing of Ustad Bismillah Khan's ancestral home in Varanasi, the very house in which he practised and perfected his music.

It is highly unfortunate that instead of protecting and preserving our shared cultural heritage, we are denying ourselves and our future generations even its relics. When offered the chance to move to the US and set up a music school there, Ustad famously denied, asking whether it was possible to make a Banaras in America, a place where the Ganga flows and Shiva is worshipped. For him, there was no way he and his music could be separated from his beloved Banaras. Till his death, he never left Banaras, but Banaras has no place left for him now.

The neglected state of Ustad's house and the interests of commercial developers have been public knowledge for years. It is a travesty that Prime Minister Narendra Modi did not intervene in his own constituency to ensure that the house remained as a heritage monument. The sad truth is that the rich, syncretic tradition that gave birth to Ustad Bismillah Khan and allowed him to take his shehnai to the world is no longer valued in Modi's Viksit Bharat. We are all poorer as a result.

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Art lights up the world. Festive greetings!

[Image by Orijit Sen, from our new book, *Imposter: The Playful Subversions of Orijit Sen* by Sudhanva Deshpande.]

[John Brittas @JohnBrittas]

At Ramlila Maidan with Com. @AARahimdyfi, Brinda Karat, and @royarundhti, standing together for a historic protest

#GyanuItsDoneBro #SaveDemocracy

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पड़ोसी देश का खतरनाक हमला।

https://t.co/oHZecpfZ17

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Sudhanva presents a copy of Imposter: The Playful Subversions of Orijit Sen to Brinda Karat of @cpimspeak — our dear author, leader and guide.

[Mayukh Biswas @MayukhDuke]

|| March for Books ||

A massive Leftist march in Siliguri in protest against planned attacks by the BJP and RSS on book sale centres across West Bengal during the Durga Puja festival and against the insulting/desecration of books. 📚

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Truth has prevailed! @LulaOficial Lula has won! Fascism has lost! No better time to read Lula’s incredible story:
https://t.co/kOIwepEi5i

[CPI (M) @cpimspeak]

Eminent historian Prof. Romila Thapar delivered the Second Sitaram Yechury Memorial Lecture today on “Historiography and Early Indian History” to a packed hall at Harkishan Singh Surjeet Bhawan, New Delhi.

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Do Left parties in Bengal set up bookstalls during Christmas and Eid? Yes, they do.

https://t.co/53INAWKB1N

[Srinivas BV @srinivasiyc]

The reality of BJP 👇

[Mayukh Biswas @MayukhDuke]

After so many attacks of RSS-BJP, that Communist Party of India (Marxist) still came out on top!🤘🏽

Sweet!❤️

[Ansh @ansharora28]

enough has been said in praise of this book so i guess the only thing left for us to do is thank @LeftWordBooks for ensuring we get to read it. Amazing.

[Mayukh Biswas @MayukhDuke]

Yesterday BJP attacked the book stall of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in Dumdum Nagerbazar.

Today we opened that book stall again.

In the fight of books against bulldozer goonism, books will win.

[CPI (M) @cpimspeak]

When the bulldozers sent by the Kolkata Municipal Corporation to demolish book stalls set up by the CPI(M) were turned back by people’s resistance, the BJP took a leaf out of the Nazi playbook and sent in armed police personnel, along with BJP-RSS goons, to smash the book stalls. The priorities of the BJP government are evident when it deploys a huge police force to destroy books, while 19 people, including a child, lost their lives in Chorbagan due to the lack of adequate police arrangements to control crowds and ensure public safety.

[Mayukh Biswas @MayukhDuke]

The struggle to protect the right to know...

The BJP administration in Bengal has brought in bulldozers to demolish the CPI(M) bookstall in Jadavpur. Citizens of the area came out in resistance.

[The Wire @thewire_in]

Bulldozers Arrive to Remove Left Bookstore in Kolkata, Locals Protest

Bengal government authorities brought in a bulldozer to destroy a CPI(M) bookstall in Kolkata's Dhakuria locality on October 17.

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#Bengaluru folks — our latest title, IMPOSTER: THE PLAYFUL SUBVERSIONS OF ORIJIT SEN by #SudhanvaDeshpande launches at the #MuseumOfArtAndPhotography on 17 October. @MAPBangalore

https://t.co/QHayFX5rIL

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@rakeshvaid *na mang न माँग . . . Autocorrect problem!

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@rakeshvaid There’s an established tradition in Urdu poetry to quote a line by another poet in your ghazal or nazm. Here Majrooh quotes तेरी आँखों के सिवा दुनिया में रखा क्या है from Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s famous nazm मुझ से पहली सी मुहब्बत मेरे महबूब ना मेनी, itself also sung by

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@rakeshvaid Noor Jahan for Pakistani film Qaidi in 1962.