Bio
Suchitra Vijayan is a writer, lawyer, photographer, and political analyst and the executive director and founder of The Polis Project. She is the author of Midnight's Borders: A People's History of Modern India.
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OCT 13, 2021 • Podcast
Global Ethics Review: Midnight's Borders, with Suchitra Vijayan
"What does it mean for us to think about these border regions beyond the questions of international security?" asks Suchhitra Vijayan, the author of the ...
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JAN 31, 2019 • Podcast
Global Ethics Weekly: Violence & Nationalism in India & the U.S., with Suchitra Vijayan
As founder and executive director of the Polis Project, a research and journalism organization, Suchitra Vijayan is helping to document a concerning trend of identity-based ...
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DEC 3, 2015 • Podcast
Suchitra Vijayan on the Politics and Rhetoric of the Refugee Crisis
The co-founder of the Resettlement Legal Aid Project in Cairo during the Iraq War, Suchitra Vijayan discusses the refugee crisis from a legal, political, and ...
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APR 7, 2015 • Podcast
Militarization in India & Beyond: Suchitra Vijayan & the Borderlands Project
What's it like to live in a disputed, militarized border region with a tangled history? In this fascinating podcast, Carnegie New Leader Suchitra Vijayan discusses ...
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NOV 20, 2014 • Podcast
Citizenship, Identity, and Conflict in South Asia's Borderlands
The intrepid Suchitra Vijayan is working on a 9,000-mile journey through South Asia, which has taken her to Afghanistan and Pakistan, the disputed territory of ...