IF HUMANITY IS A COUNTRY: CUBAN DAYS - PRE BOOK

How do we define Cuba? By its turquoise waters and white-sand beaches? By coral reefs, the revolution, or the ongoing socialist experiment? The island is famed for strong healthcare and education systems, vibrant culture, and a people who move with pride and resilience despite decades of pressure from a hostile superpower.

In If Humanity is a Country: Cuban Days, student leader Nitheesh Narayanan travels across Cuba and discovers a society built not on wealth but on collective will. His experiences reveal a nation that refuses to bow to market logic, choosing instead to place human dignity at the centre of its political life.

Through conversations with young activists, teachers, doctors, athletes, and families, he encounters a Cuba far richer than the usual headlines. In classrooms where children with disabilities learn to imagine their futures, in hospitals where care is a universal right, in neighbourhoods where the memory of struggle is kept alive through community rather than monuments, he witnesses solidarity made real.

Part travelogue, part political meditation, and part celebration of internationalism, Cuban Days invites readers to reconsider what justice and equality can mean. For those curious about a country that fights not only for itself but for the idea of humanity, this book offers a thoughtful and moving answer.

NITHEESH NARAYANAN is a researcher at Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research and a former vice-president of the Students' Federation of India.