In light of the recent elections in India\ , the results of which came out this summer\, we are at a crucial juncture to explore the state of freedom and dissent in the world's largest democrac y. Suchitra Vijayan is an award-winning journalist and photographer\, whose recent books include How Long Can the Moon be Caged? Voices of Indian Poli tical Prisoners and Midnight's Borders: A People's History of Modern India. Drawing on both books and her work as founder of the hybrid research and j ournalism organization\, the Polis Project\, Ms. Vijayan will reflect on th e changing landscape of political freedom and legal repression in India. Gi ven her unique career spanning litigation\, policy\, and visual storytellin g\, Ms. Vijayan will also reflect on effective means of advocating for free dom internationally. Ms. Vijayan teaches at NYU Gallatin and Columbia Unive rsity.
Suchitra Vijayan is an essayist\, lawyer\, and photographer w orking across oral history\, state violence\, and visual storytelling. She is the author of the critically acclaimed book Midnight's Borders: A People 's History of Modern India (Melville House\, New York) and How Long Can the Moon Be Caged? Voices of Indian Political Prisoners (Pluto Press). She is the 2023 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow in Nonfiction Literature. As an attorney\, she worked for the United Nations war crimes tribunals in Yugoslavia and Rwanda before co-founding the Resettlement Legal Aid Project in Cairo\, which provides legal aid to Iraqi refugees. She is the founder and executive director of the Polis Project\, a hybrid research and journal ism organization. She lives in New York and teaches at NYU Gallatin and Col umbia University.
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