Presenting War, No War—a brand new podcast series hosted by journalist Parvaiz Bukhari—starting with a conversation with alawyer in international criminal law and human rights Kartik Murukutla
The Polis Project’s Suchitra Vijayan spoke to Zillah Eisenstein on the day of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony at the Brett Kavanaugh hearing. The conversation returned to Anita Hill, the nature of gendered racism and misogyny, what it means to think and resist in the age of Trump, and, the future trajectories of feminist solidarity and … Read more
As India descends into violence, we return to the early modern history of cow protection, anxieties around religious conversation and violence in Colonial Bengal with Historian Mou Banerjee. We speak about the history of cow protection, articulations around ‘Good Muslim’ and ‘Bad Muslim,’ and violence of defining the meaning of Indianness through the micro-histories of two … Read more
The Polis Project’s Suchitra Vijayan in conversation with lawyer Arjun Singh Sethi about his latest book, ‘American Hate’. The book chronicles the stories of hate crime survivors and those targeted by hate under the Trump administration. In a series of powerful, unfiltered testimonials, survivors tell their stories in their own words and describe how the … Read more
Suchitra Vijayan at The Polis Project spoke to lawyer and legal researcher Siddharth Narrain about the history of hate speech in India, and its current trajectories in relation to freedom of expression, social media and question of dissent. This conversation is an attempt to take the academic and legal scholarship around the law, justice, and … Read more
For each episode, our guest will be asked to choose five pieces or items that have influenced their intellectual life and their work. These five items can be books, art, music, poetry, photographs, performance, a person, an event, or an experience. The choices then become the basis of a free-flowing conversation that discusses our guest’s … Read more
India has recently excluded four million people from the National Register of Citizens, thereby deeming them ‘illegal’ and, if their appeals fail, will deny them citizenship. In our specially curated conversation series Suddenly Stateless, The Polis Project takes an in-depth look at the controversial National Register of Citizens through conversations with various scholars, reporters, writers, … Read more
India has recently excluded four million people from the National Register of Citizens, thereby deeming them ‘illegal’ and, if their appeals fail, will deny them citizenship. In our specially curated conversation series Suddenly Stateless, The Polis Project takes an in-depth look at the controversial National Register of Citizens through conversations with various scholars, reporters, writers, … Read more
India has recently excluded four million people from the National Register of Citizens, thereby deeming them ‘illegal’ and, if their appeals fail, will deny them citizenship. In our specially curated conversation series Suddenly Stateless, The Polis Project takes an in-depth look at the controversial National Register of Citizens.Vasundhara Sirnate, spoke to writer and journalist Praveen … Read more
For each episode, our guest will be asked to choose five pieces or items that have influenced their intellectual life and their work. These five items can be books, art, music, poetry, photographs, performance, a person, an event, or an experience. The choices then become the basis of a free-flowing conversation that discusses our guest’s … Read more