Echoes of destruction: An eviction drive to retrieve Kashmir’s state land
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In this essay Qazi Shibli and Sajad Hameed look at the latest eviction drives in Indian controlled Kashmir. While claiming to retrieve encroached state land, the Union...
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Arbitrarily detained under Public Safety Act: The case of Javaid Ahmad Parray
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This essay focuses on the custodial violence endured by a rural youth in Kashmir booked under the draconian Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act, 1978 in the...
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Book Excerpt: Violent Modernities
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Law and violence are thought to share an antithetical relationship in postcolonial modernity. Violence is considered the other of law, lawlessness is understood to produce violence, and...
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How home disappeared: Twenty years after the Gujarat pogrom
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Twenty years after the Gujarat pogrom, Suchitra Vijayan speaks to Zahir Janmohamed about the moment, his experience on the ground and his work since. The conversation delves...
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No land’s people, Documenting Assam’s NRC crisis – A Conversation with Abhishek Saha
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In this episode, Suchitra Vijayan sits down with Abhishek Saha to discuss his new book, "No Land's People: The Untold Story of Assam's NRC crisis" and the...
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Violence is a legacy of empire that didn’t end when when empire ended – A conversation with Deana Heath
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In this episode, Suchitra Vijayan is in conversation with Dr. Deana Heath about her book Colonial Terror. Focusing on India between the early nineteenth century and the...
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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere – A conversation with S Karthikeyan and John Rushing
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The Polis Project hosts scholars, activists, organizers, writers, reporters, and progressive voices as a part of our Politics Podcast. They don’t just tell you what happened. They...
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A Dalit trade union activist and her fight for equal rights: A profile of Nodeep Kaur
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Farmers’ protest India Patterns of violence
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Research. Reportage. Resistance. The Polis Project, Inc. is a New York-based hybrid research and journalism organization that documents communities in resistance at the intersection of politics, culture...
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