Tailor and journalist: Cow Protection, Conversion and Violence in Early Modern Bengal – A Conversation with Mou Banerjee

As India descends into violence, we return to the early modern history of cow protection, anxieties around religious conversation and violence in Colonial Bengal with Historian Mou Banerjee. We speak about the history of cow protection, articulations around ‘Good Muslim’ and ‘Bad Muslim,’ and violence of defining the meaning of Indianness through the micro-histories of two … Read more

“American Hate” – A Conversation with Arjun Sethi

The Polis Project’s Suchitra Vijayan in conversation with lawyer Arjun Singh Sethi about his latest book, ‘American Hate’. The book chronicles the stories of hate crime survivors and those targeted by hate under the Trump administration. In a series of powerful, unfiltered testimonials, survivors tell their stories in their own words and describe how the … Read more

Hate Speech in India – a conversation Siddharth Narrain

Suchitra Vijayan at The Polis Project spoke to lawyer and legal researcher Siddharth Narrain about the history of hate speech in India, and its current trajectories in relation to freedom of expression, social media and question of dissent. This conversation is an attempt to take the academic and legal scholarship around the law, justice, and … Read more

5 Object Podcast | A conversation with Nijah Cunningham

For each episode, our guest will be asked to choose five pieces or items that have influenced their intellectual life and their work. These five items can be books, art, music, poetry, photographs, performance, a person, an event, or an experience. The choices then become the basis of a free-flowing conversation that discusses our guest’s … Read more

Suddenly Stateless Conversation Series III : “Procedure as Violence”

India has recently excluded four million people from the National Register of Citizens, thereby deeming them ‘illegal’ and, if their appeals fail, will deny them citizenship. In our specially curated conversation series Suddenly Stateless, The Polis Project takes an in-depth look at the controversial National Register of Citizens through conversations with various scholars, reporters, writers, … Read more

Suddenly Stateless Conversation Series II : “Who belongs and where?”

India has recently excluded four million people from the National Register of Citizens, thereby deeming them ‘illegal’ and, if their appeals fail, will deny them citizenship. In our specially curated conversation series Suddenly Stateless, The Polis Project takes an in-depth look at the controversial National Register of Citizens through conversations with various scholars, reporters, writers, … Read more

Suddenly Stateless Conversation Series : “Refusing Citizenship”

India has recently excluded four million people from the National Register of Citizens, thereby deeming them ‘illegal’ and, if their appeals fail, will deny them citizenship. In our specially curated conversation series Suddenly Stateless, The Polis Project takes an in-depth look at the controversial National Register of Citizens.Vasundhara Sirnate, spoke to writer and journalist Praveen … Read more

5 Objects Podcast | Conversation with Naomi van Stapele

For each episode, our guest will be asked to choose five pieces or items that have influenced their intellectual life and their work. These five items can be books, art, music, poetry, photographs, performance, a person, an event, or an experience. The choices then become the basis of a free-flowing conversation that discusses our guest’s … Read more