{{short description|Indian author, publisher and journalist}} {{BLP sources|date=January 2026}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2019}} {{Infobox person | name = S. Anand | image = | caption = | birth_date = | birth_place = India | occupation = {{hlist|Journalist|writer|publisher }} | notable_works = {{hlist|Founder of ''Navayana''|Editor of annotated editions of ''Annihilation of Caste''|Bhimayana}} }}

'''S. Anand''' is an Indian author, publisher and journalist. He, along with D. Ravikumar, founded the publishing house Navayana in 2003, which is "India's first and only publishing house to focus on the issue of caste from an anticaste perspective."<ref>{{cite web|title=About|url=http://navayana.org/about/|website=Navayana}}</ref>

== Career == Navayana won the British Council–London Book Fair International Young Publisher of the Year award in 2007.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Pal|first1=Deepanjana|title=I'm an anti-caste junkie: Meet S Anand, the man behind Navayana publishing house|url=http://www.firstpost.com/living/im-an-anti-caste-junkie-meet-s-anand-the-man-behind-navayana-publishing-house-737357.html|work=Firstpost|date=Apr 29, 2013}}</ref> In Pali, the word ''navayana'' means {{Gloss|new vehicle}}. B. R. Ambedkar used the word in 1956 to describe the branch of Buddhism that would not be mired in the Hinayana–Mahayana divide, but would help dalits gain equality in India.<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=http://www.firstpost.com/living/im-an-anti-caste-junkie-meet-s-anand-the-man-behind-navayana-publishing-house-737357.html|title = I'm an anti-caste junkie: Meet S Anand, the man behind Navayana publishing house|date = 29 April 2013}}</ref>

S. Anand is an Ambedkarite and a Buddhist.<ref name="auto"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.outlookindia.com/author/s-anand|title=S. Anand - Read all stories from S. Anand &#124; Author at Outlook India|website=Outlook India}}</ref> S. Anand co-authored, with Srividya Natarajan, and illustrators Durgabai Vyam and Suresh Vyam, the hugely popular graphic novel ''Bhimayana: Experiences of Untouchability'' on the life of B. R. Ambedkar, Indian polymath, social reformer and the architect of the Indian Constitution.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Desai|first1=Prajna|title=Review: Bhimayana: Experiences of Untouchability|url=http://www.tcj.com/reviews/bhimayana-experiences-of-untouchability/|work=The Comics Journal|date=Apr 18, 2012}}</ref> He has also annotated Ambedkar's classic ''Annihilation of Caste''; the annotated edition has an introductory essay by Arundhati Roy titled "The Doctor and the Saint".<ref>{{cite news|last1=Naqvi|first1=Saba|title=We Need Ambedkar -- Now|url=http://www.outlookindia.com/article/we-need-ambedkarnow-urgently/289691|work=Outlook|date=Mar 10, 2014}}</ref> He co-authored ''Finding My Way'' with the Pradhan Gond artist Venkat Raman Singh Shyam.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Finding My Way |url=https://navayana.org/products/finding-my-way/ |access-date=2023-04-10 |website=Navayana Publishing |language=en}}</ref> He is a student of Dhrupad with Ustad F. Wasifuddin Dagar.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Nair |first=Malini |title=An Ambedkarite is interweaving Buddha's teachings with dhrupad in a leap of artistic faith |url=https://scroll.in/magazine/1020101/an-ambedkarite-is-interweaving-buddhas-teachings-with-dhrupad-in-a-leap-of-artistic-faith |access-date=2023-04-10 |website=Scroll.in |date=26 March 2022 |language=en-US}}</ref>

Before starting Navayana, Anand was a journalist with the news magazines ''Outlook'' and ''Tehelka''. He is married to R. Sivapriya who works with Bloomsbury India.{{Citation needed|date=January 2026}}

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== External links == *[http://www.thehindu.com/books/literary-review/the-doctor-and-the-saint/article5740369.ece Excerpt from Roy's essay, "The Doctor and the Saint"] *[http://graphicshelf.com/interview-s-anand/ “We didn't think of ourselves as a publishing company which will churn out books for the market”] - in conversation with S. Anand on GraphicShelf *[https://scroll.in/article/966829/first-person-how-navayana-publisher-of-dalit-literature-was-born-and-where-it-is-going-now How Navayana, publisher of anti-caste literature, was born, and where it is going now: Founder S Anand talks of Navayana's past, present, and post-pandemic future].

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