A History of Dissent: A conversation with Romila Thapar
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People have disagreed since time immemorial. They have argued or agreed to disagree, or eventually arrived at an agreement. All that is part of life, of living....
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Resistance and democracy: women’s trajectories towards social equality and liberation – A profile of Shoma Sen
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In collaboration with maraa, The Polis Project launched Profiles of Dissent — a new series centered on remarkable voices of dissent and courage in India and their...
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What belongs to whom? Who pays the cost of what is taken and cannot be returned? – A conversation with writer Annie Zaidi
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A nation needs its anthems, flags, soldiers, and statues. But, the function of the writer is something else. Writers are the ones who capture the conflict, the...
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Emergency: past is prologue – A conversation with V. Krishna Ananth
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Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declared the “Emergency” on 25 June 1975. It lasted for twenty-one months, from 1975 to 1977. This is often referred to as...
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We need groups organized to fight, they’re the ones who can make a dent – A profile of Sudha Bharadwaj
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In collaboration with maraa, The Polis Project launched Profiles of Dissent -- the new series centers on remarkable voices of dissent and courage in India, and their personal...
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Patterns of violence, impunity and silence, conversation with Bharti Ali and Nidhi Suresh
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On 12 December 2019, the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 – rightly referred to as India’s Nuremberg Law – was passed, leading to widespread protests across the country....
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Conversation with Meher Manda and Mayukh Goswami, creators of the web comic “Jamun Ka Ped”
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Since December 2019 millions of Indians have protested the contentious “Citizenship Amendment Act” (CAA)– rightly called the Nuremberg laws of India. Since the protest started there as...
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Hindutva and the university – A roundtable
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The sustained assaults on universities and schools in Kashmir, the long-standing discrimination against Dalits and minorities at Indian universities, and the recent armed attacks on students and...
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Modi’s DNA is not just of an autocrat or a communal fascist, but of a lumpen street thug — A conversation with Prashant Bhushan
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Our second episode of War, No War—a Polis podcast series hosted by journalist Parvaiz Bukhari—features Indian civil rights activist and Supreme Court lawyer Prashant Bhushan. Bhushan is known for his...
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Billionaires are being produced at the same time that people are actually dying from lack of food – A conversation with Balmurli Natrajan
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As the world’s largest democracy goes to the polls with 900 million voters getting ready to decide the future of the Republic, The Polis Project is speaking...
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