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Status | Active |
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Founded | 1999 |
Founder | Prakash Karat |
Country of origin | India |
Headquarters location | New Delhi |
Key people | Sudhanva Deshpande, Vijay Prashad |
Publication types | books |
Nonfiction topics | Leftist views, Marxist theory |
Owner(s) | Communist Party of India (Marxist) |
Official website | http://leftword.com/ |
LeftWord Books is a New Delhi–based publisher that seeks to reflect the views of the Left in India and South Asia. Its Managing Director is Prakash Karat, the former General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), or CPI(M). The Chief Editor is Vijay Prashad and the Managing Editor is the actor-publisher Sudhanva Deshpande.[1][2]