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Mutual Loss: The grave consequences of forests without Van Gujjars, and Van Gujjars without forests in Uttarakhand

Sharjeel Usmani

All We Imagine As India: On the Barbican’s Latest Exhibition

Vamika Sinha

Kottukkaali Is A Homage To Resilience In The Face Of Patriarchal Oppression

Adithya Kamesh

Himanshu Kumar’s cycle march from Delhi to Mumbai continued his legacy of advocacy against oppression

Prashant Rahi

Long Reads

Mutual Loss: The grave consequences of forests without Van Gujjars, and Van Gujjars without forests in Uttarakhand

Sharjeel Usmani

The continuing land-rights movements by Dalit collectives in Punjab

Prashant Rahi

Torn Clothes, Scarred Bodies and Fenced Roads: Barbed wires as a material of occupation in Kashmir

Sabahat Ali Wani

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Projects

DISAPPEARANCE

How BJP’s narrative on Jharkhand’s tribal population decline obfuscates a complex reality

Aabha Muralidharan and Aayat Farooqui

DEMOLITIONS

When Mohammad Bilal’s house was demolished with his family still inside

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WATCH THE STATE

Documenting custodial violence: Reflections and further research – 5

Watch the State

PROFILES OF DISSENT

When the commitment to social change is a provocation for an increasingly repressive State: A profile of Atikur Rahman

The Polis Project

BK-16 PRISON DIARIES

BK-16 Prison Diaries: Varavara Rao on prisons as institutions of corruption, sadism and dehumanisation

Varavara Rao

WATCH THE RESISTANCE

Digging in their heels to protect Tij Raja’s abode against Vedanta’s next bauxite mining venture in Odisha

Prashant Rahi

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CUT THE NOISE

Cut the noise: Refugees

Francesca Recchia

BOOK SALON

Book Salon with Michael Busch – 17 | Daniel Royles

Michael Busch

SHORT DOCS

The strange case against the Bhima Koregaon political prisoners

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INTERVIEWS

Citizenship, lived experiences and the impact of the War on Terror

The Polis Project

LECTURES

E-policing in Hyderabad: Digitization and Surveillance

Suchitra Vijayan

Podcasts

5 OBJECTS

5 Objects Podcast | A conversation with Anand Pandian

Suchitra Vijayan

REFLECTIONS ON REPRESENTATION

Reflections on Representation Ep 4 – Rethinking Pedagogy: Dignity in Representation

Suchitra Vijayan

SUDDENLY STATELESS

Suddenly Stateless Conversation Series III : “Procedure as Violence”

Suchitra Vijayan

CONVERSATIONS

UK’s racialized immigration policies: Francesca Recchia in conversation with Helidah Ogude Chambert

The Polis Project

IT'S NOT YOU, IT'S THE MEDIA

It's Not You, It's The Media! (Spotify)