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Reflections

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January 2026 Roundup: Grief's Rebellion
From Minneapolis to Gaza Polis Project's Monthly round up
 • Suchitra Vijayan
Four Years Too Long: Kashmiri Human Rights Defender Khurram Parvez Remains Jailed Without Trial
On November 22, 2021, Indian authorities arrested Khurram Parvez, a noted human rights defender in the world’s most militarized zone—Kashmir.
 • Suchitra Vijayan
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Technologies of Genocide: Episode Two is Live — Bloodshed in Bangladesh
How digital counter-forensics challenges state violence, denial, and erasure.
 • Suchitra Vijayan
Ezra Klein’s NYT Elegy for Charlie Kirk Sanitizes Supremacy
Ezra Klein's essay is a hollow, uninspiring piece masquerading as discourse —it's garbage.
 • Suchitra Vijayan
Death as Currency: Charlie Kirk is dead, so is our discourse.
Charlie Kirk once said the quiet part out loud.
 • Suchitra Vijayan
US Supreme Court’s Ruling in Favor of ICE Legalizes Racial Profiling and Tramples Fourth Amendment
When the judiciary is the midwife of tyranny, the law becomes the most lethal weapon of a fascist state.
 • Suchitra Vijayan
Disappeared by Trump: The Case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia
In late August 2025, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran construction worker who had lived in Maryland for years with his wife and children, entered the…
 • Suchitra Vijayan
12:51
Blackouts as a Weapon of War in Gaza
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 • Suchitra Vijayan and THE POLIS PROJECT
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Technologies of Genocide: How Big Tech Profits from Mass Annihilation
A podcast by The Polis Project, hosted by Suchitra Vijayan
 • Suchitra Vijayan, Jalal Abukhater, and THE POLIS PROJECT
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Dispatches

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“We Have No Choice”: Why an Indian Climate Activist Joined the Global Sumud Flotilla Land Convoy
Nikita Naidu is an Indian climate activist.
 • Suchitra Vijayan
Big Tech’s Complicity in Israel’s Genocide in Palestine
Every September 11, the world is reminded of how violence is remembered, and how power decides whose suffering is worthy of commemoration.
 • THE POLIS PROJECT
Censoring Palestine: Academic Freedom on American Campuses
It was the spring of 2024.
 • Suchitra Vijayan
52:42
Rafooghar: Stitching for Rest, Resistance, & Repair
In conversation with Ankita Dhar Karmakar and Yusra Khan
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Mental Health Organizations in India Are Failing Therapists
In conversation with Meghna Prakash and Gargi Ranade
1:00:53
Breaking the Siege: Starvation, War Crimes, and the Freedom Flotilla
In conversation with Heidi Matthews and Priya Gupta
1:11:30
ASHA Workers Protest In Kerala
In conversation with Aabha Muralidharan, Shradha and Shreya Raman
DISPATCHES | Breaking the Siege: Law, Violence, and the Weaponisation of Hunger in Gaza A conversation with Professors Heidi Matthews and…
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 • Suchitra Vijayan
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Afterlives of Lynching in Mewat
In conversation with Hajara Najeeb
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Exposing Fabrication and State Power
In Conversation With Prashant Rahi and Mouli Sharma
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Counting Hate in India
In conversation with Raqib Hameed Naik
 • THE POLIS PROJECT
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Lines of Control in European Lawfare
In conversation with Sara Tanveer

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Of Histories, Remembrance, and Reading | April at The Polis Project
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“We Have No Choice”: Why an Indian Climate Activist Joined the Global Sumud Flotilla Land Convoy
Nikita Naidu is an Indian climate activist.
 • Suchitra Vijayan
Lives of dissidents, letter from Gaza & a new column: Here’s what we published this week
We’re excited to launch Psychic Weather, a new column at The Polis Project that sits at the intersection of psychoanalysis, culture, and politics.
 • THE POLIS PROJECT
From Minnesota to Minab: When institutions fail and injustice deepens
What we did in March - a global dispatch
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White Feminism Fail: Why We Can’t Get Behind The No Kings Protests
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 • THE POLIS PROJECT and Radical Books Collective
Narrative Control, Counter Cinema, and Everything in Between
As the world faces a multitude of crises, we cannot look away.
 • THE POLIS PROJECT
What Zohran’s “Reprehensible” Comment Reveals About Power and Palestine
75 days in, and those who elected him are already getting the lesson every movement learns the hard way.
 • Suchitra Vijayan
Are The Oscar Films Too Political This Year?
In our pre-Oscars chat, we discuss the year's big nominations, what makes a political film, and of course....our predictions for the winners.
 • THE POLIS PROJECT and Radical Books Collective
Lila Abu-Lughod Shows Why Those Who Claim To Save Muslim Women Don’t Care About Them at All
In Do Muslim Women Need Saving? (2013), Palestinian-American anthropologist Lila Abu-Lughod offers a powerful critique of the widespread assumption in…
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What You Should Know as the US-Israel-Iran War Continues
We bring you a round-up of key developments with nuance and context
 • THE POLIS PROJECT
Edward Said’s ‘Covering Islam’ Remains Disturbingly Relevant Today
In Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World (1981), Edward Said offers a foundational critique of how…
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Sedition, Censorship, and Political Changes: Stories from South Asia and Africa
What does it take to silence a story, a voice, or a community?
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