Past Programs
Discrimination - 2007
Untouchable literature - publishing about India's caste system
12/07/2007
If you've read novels like The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy or A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry, you'll be painfully aware of the ubiquitous discrimination against Untouchables -- or Dalits -- in India.
Well, an independent publishing house called Navayana, which means new vehicle, is also trying to awaken Indians to the discrimination of the caste system against Untouchables through its non-fiction.
And S. Anand, the founder of Navayana, won the International Young Publisher of the Year Award at the London Book Fair in April this year for publishing books about the caste system and also books by Untouchables themselves.
Anand spoke to Ramona Koval on the phone from Delhi, and Ramona congratulated him on the award.
Arnold Zable: From Socrates to Politkovskaya Read Transcript
29/01/2007
A familiar voice to many listeners is writer and storyteller Arnold Zable. But today he's with us in a slightly different role, that of president of Melbourne PEN - the international organisation that exists to advance the cause of writers worldwide and to highlight the plight of writers who are abused, imprisoned or killed because of their work.
Here's Arnold's reflection on the dangers of speaking out - from the case last year of the murdered Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, all the way back to Socrates.
