The Many Lives of Syeda X - A People’s History of Invisible India

In Delhi, she settled into the life of a poor migrant, juggling multiple jobs a day - from sewing soccer balls and removing the stems from raisins, to shelling almonds sold in bulk to multinationals and assisting in illegal abortions.

About the author

Neha Dixit is an independent journalist based in New Delhi. She has covered politics, gender and social justice for seventeen years. Most of her work is investigative, narrative and long-form. She has reported for Al Jazeera, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Caravan, The Wire, and other notable publications. She has won over a dozen international and national journalism awards, including the One Young World Journalist of the Year Award 2020, the International Press Freedom Award 2019 from the Committee to Protect Journalists, the Chameli Devi Jain Award for Outstanding Woman Journalist 2017, the Kurt Schork Award in International Journalism 2014, the Lorenzo Natali Prize for Journalism 2011 from the European Commission, among others.

Product details

• Authors: Naha Dixit, Neha Dixit
• Publisher: Bonnier Zaffre
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.04.2025
• EAN: 9781804442272
• ISBN: 978-1-80444-227-2
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 242 mm x 31 mm
• Weight: 542 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Cultural Studies, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social and cultural history, Social and cultural anthropology, Asian History, Indian sub-continent, South Asia (Indian sub-continent), HISTORY / Asia / South / General