![]() When the book was released four years ago, it made a statement with its unconventional book launch -a kababchi from Jama Masjid served buff (a euphemism for beef) delicacies. A Gardener…is published by Navayana, India’s first and only publishing house to focus exclusively on the issue of caste from an anti-caste perspective. “Phule wrote very visually, and we picked up his work to plant a seed via a graphic novel, where the youth can pick up a copy and understand what being a Dalit is all about,” says Ninan of the book set to be published in regional languages. ![]() More than a century later, writer Srividya Natarajan and illustrator Aparajita Ninan’s put together the graphic novel, A Gardener in the Wasteland: Jotiba Phule’s Fight for Liberty, drawing inspiration from his richly imaginative work. That was the year Maharashtra’s legendary social reformer Jyotirao Govindrao Phule wrote Gulamgiri (slavery), a blistering attack on the vedas and Brahmanism. If you think this is today’s news, the same made headlines in 1873. ![]()
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