Indira (Indu) Chandrasekhar, Publisher and Managing Editor of Tulika Books, New Delhi, has been associated with book publishing in India since the early 1980s. She began her publishing career with Macmillan India and then worked for several years as a freelance editor, with brief stints of teaching in colleges in Bangalore and Delhi in the intervening years, before setting up Tulika Books in 1995. Tulika Books is a small and independent publisher of academic books in the social sciences, humanities and arts, publishing from a broadly left perspective. Its authors include some of India’s best-known intellectuals and academics. Indira is a founding partner of the Independent Publishers’ Distribution Alternatives (IPDA), a distribution network set up by eight independent publishers to promote alternative publishing in India. She is also a member of the Paris-based International Alliance of Independent Publishers.