"[1] Navayana won the British Council–London Book Fair International Young Publisher of the Year award in 2007.
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.
[4][5] 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.
[7] He co-authored Finding My Way with the Pradhan Gond artist Venkat Raman Singh Shyam.
[9] Before starting Navayana, Anand was a journalist with the news magazines Outlook and Tehelka.