From India to Palestine: Essays in Solidarity

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In 1948, Israel was created on Palestinian land. Palestinians lost their homes and villages; huge numbers were expelled; they became refugees elsewhere or in their own land. In 1967, the West Bank and Gaza were also occupied by Israel. For more than five decades now, Palestinians have suffered the violent and unjust realities of occupation.

Not only does India have strong historical ties with the Arab world; but also the Indian freedom movement saw the struggle of the Palestinians for a homeland as a genuine struggle against colonialism. Both Gandhi and Nehru expressed this in no uncertain terms; so, later, did the non-aligned movement. Indian policy towards Palestine shifted radically in the 1990s. Israel has now become a major supplier of arms to India; it is also part of the complicated shift in Indias relationship with America, and Indias emerging vision of itself in the world.

Fourteen new essays on India and Palestine-Israel by writers, scholars and activists:

Aijaz Ahmad

Meena Alexander

GithaHariharan

SunainaMaira

Nivedita Menon

Ritu Menon

SukumarMuralidharan

Seema Mustafa

Aditya Nigam

PrabhatPatnaik

Vijay Prashad

PrabirPurkayastha

A.K. Ramakrishnan

NayantaraSahgal

AchinVanaik

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Githa Hariharan

Githa Hariharan's first novel, The Thousand Faces of Night, won the Commonwealth Writers Prize in 1993. Since then, she has published a collection of stories, The Art of Dying, and two novels, The Ghosts of Vasu Master and When Dreams Travel. She has also edited A Southern Harvest, a volume of stories translated from four south Indian languages, and co-edited a collection of secular stories for Indian children, Sorry, Best Friend! She lives in New Delhi, where she works as a freelance editor.