Also, the fact that Anand mentions preference will be given to Dalit candidates is utterly hypocritical. Yes, Navayana has published some great work but it has gained more than a fair amount of traction by virtue of being publishers of Arundhati Roy’s edition of Annihilation of Caste. Roy’s father was an upper-caste Bengali and her mother a Syrian Christian from Kerala. So Navayana’s blue-eyed author is far from being lower caste. In fact, a cursory glance through Navayana’s authors shows that many of them are not Dalits. The latest book from the publishing house is authored by a Slovenian. So does that mean preference to Dalits and beef eaters is limited only to in-house positions and when it comes to the authors it publishes, the choice is based on more formidable credentials? Why the double-speak on who gets to author a book and who gets to edit it? One would have understood the clause had Navayana been strictly a space for writings and writers from the backward castes.