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 and literature. Through our Research, Reportage and Resistance approach, we publish and disseminate critical ideas that are excluded from mainstream media.

Our work sheds light on the rise of authoritarianism, especially in democracies, and focuses on issues of racial, class and caste injustice, Islamophobia and State oppression around the world.

In September 2019, the United States Library of Congress selected The Polis Project, Inc.’s website for inclusion in its web archives. They consider the “website to be an important part of their collection and the historical record.”

We publish fearless journalism – you can read our Washington Post op-ed on how our work has been censored on Twitter at the behest of the Indian State.

Read our books How Long Can the Moon Be Caged? Voices of Indian Political Prisoners and False Prophets: Western Media & The Betrayal of Its Myths

Commitments

SUCHITRA VIJAYAN
Founder & Publisher

ARSHU JOHN
Political Editor

RITESH UTTAMCHANDANI
Photo Editor

ARITRY DAS 
Assistant Editor, Politics Vertical

KAASHIF HAJEE
Assistant Editor, Culture Vertical

AAYAT FAROOQUI
Editorial Intern

MEENAKSHI THIRUKODE
Head of Communications and Cultural Partnerships

KYUBIN KIM
Designer

TRINA SHANKAR

Video Editor

DEVRAJ
Production Intern

SAACHI
Communications Intern

PRASHANT RAHI
Senior Reporter

ABHA MURALIDHARAN
Researcher

AFREEN FATIMA
Researcher/Reporter

SHARJEEL USMANI
Researcher/Reporter

O MONROE
Office Manager

ADVISORY BOARD
ASIM RAFIQUI
BHAKTI SHRINGARPURE
MADHURI SASTRY

SUCHITRA VIJAYAN

ASIM RAFIQUI

FRANCESCA RECCHIA

Founding Member

NAWAZ GUL QANANUNGO

Founding Editor