From India to Palestine Essays in Solidarity

01 March, 2014

Edited by Githa Hariharan

HC, 210 pages, Rs 350

Fourteen leading Indian writers, scholars and activists—including Aijaz Ahmad, Ritu Menon, Prabhat Patnaik, Nayantara Sahgal and Achin Vanaik—reflect on the relationship between India, Palestine and Israel. For more than five decades now, Palestinians have suffered the violent and unjust realities of occupation. Though during and after its own freedom movement, India saw the Palestinian struggle for a homeland as a genuine fight against colonialism, the country’s policy towards Palestine shifted radically in the 1990s. This book offers a view of Palestine from beyond the dominant Western framework.