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
ARSHUL JOHN
Political Editor
RITESH UTTAMCHANDANI
Photo Editor
ARITRY DAS
Assistant Editor, Political Vertical
KAASHIF HAJI
Assistant Editor, Culture Vertical
AAYAT
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