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Black Artists In London Post The Black Lives Matter Movement

1 month ago | thepolisproject.com | Damisola Sulaiman

The year 2020 will go down in history for many reasons, the most obvious being the global pandemic that fundamentally changed life as we know it, but also the explosion of the Black Lives Matter Movement, fueled by the murder of George Floyd. The tragedy sparked months of global protests against not only the injustice but also the years of police brutality, discrimination, and systemic racism faced by members of the Black community.
Afghan Women Fight Taliban's Education Ban, Refuse Silence

1 month ago | thepolisproject.com | Tauseef Ahmad |Sajid Raina

By and In August 2021, the Taliban’s return to power in Afghanistan marked the beginning of a dark chapter for the country’s women and girls.
Lawfare Against Interfaith Couples In Uttarakhand

Jan 28, 2025 | thepolisproject.com | Poorvi Gupta

On 22 August last year, Sunaina and Afraaz left their hotel in Delhi to get married at an Arya Samaj temple named Vedic Trust. All decked up in a yellow Benarsi saree, Sunaina was mildly disappointed on seeing a dingy, grimy temple on the first floor of a nondescript building in the Shahdara area of east Delhi. But she pushed the feeling aside because after a long-drawn ordeal, she was finally getting married to the person of her choice, accompanied by their family—and most importantly, lawfully.
Nirmala Putul On Poetry And Adivasi Rights

Jan 7, 2025 | thepolisproject.com | Aishwarya AVRaj |Vamika Sinha |Aysha Sana |Adithya Kamesh

Born in 1972, Nirmala Putul Murmu is many things: a distinguished poet, activist, and second-time Sarpanch or the village head in the local government of Kurwa Gram Panchayat, Dumka, Jharkhand. Writing in Santali and Hindi, her work transcends linguistic barriers and is translated into multiple languages, including English, Marathi, Russian, and Korean. She has been honored with prestigious awards like the Sahitya Akademi Prize for Translation and the Rashitrya Yuva Samman by the Sahitya Academy.
Jungle Raj: Indian Army Accused Of Killing Van Gujjars During Illegal Use Of Firing Range In Shivalik Forest

Aug 31, 2024 | thepolisproject.com | Bhavya Dore |Sukhada Tatke |P. Baruah |Sharjeel Usmani

Like most Van Gujjars in Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh, 70-year-old Noor Mohammad has lived in forests all his life. He lived with his wife and daughter in a dera—a small cluster of huts made of mud and tree branches, usually occupied by a single Van Gujjar family—in the Chapdi range of Shivalik Forest, around 60 kilometres from Uttar Pradesh’s Saharanpur district. Less than 20 feet away, his son lived with his wife and their two sons.
Unlawful Activities: How the Indian prison system denies basic freedoms, rights and dignity to political prisoners

May 28, 2024 | thepolisproject.com | P. Baruah |Poorvi Gupta |Bhavya Dore |Sukhada Tatke

In the summer of May 2022, relegated to his oblong-shaped high-security anda cell, GN Saibaba was frequently thirsty. The Delhi University professor, lodged in Nagpur Central Jail at the time, has post-polio paralysis in both legs. He had also lost the use of his left hand after a nerve injury he said he sustained during his arrest.
Silent Unrest About Violence And Local Issues Is Going To Be Translated In The Voting Patterns, But We Don’t Know To What Extent: A Conversation With Sarthak Bagchi - The Polis Project

Mar 10, 2024 | thepolisproject.com | Vasundhara Sirnate Drennan |Suchitra Vijayan |Vasundhara Sirnate

By Vasundhara Sirnate Drennan. A: Thank you so much for Vasundhara for that very generous introduction and thank you for having me here. Yes, I have just returned today from Patna. The sense that I got of the campaign in Patna is that there is no campaign. That is a very weird thing to say for somebody who is coming from Bihar because every time there is an election and Bihar is such a politically conscious place. But this time actually there is no campaign.
Barbed Wires As A Material Of Occupation In Kashmir

Jan 10, 2024 | thepolisproject.com | Sharjeel Usmani |Bhavya Dore |Sukhada Tatke |Sabahat Ali Wani

When I was nine years old, I had one of my earliest encounters with the barbed wire—it was not my first, but it is the one I still vividly remember. I was on my school bus, nervously waiting for my stop. My father had collected my final-term results, so I knew anger and disappointment awaited me at home. When I saw the familiar maze of concertina coils on the road, I stood up. This was my stop, I lived on the right side of the all-wired road.
The military kill chain is an accelerated model of bureaucratic death - A conversation with Dr. Criag Jones

Oct 31, 2023 | thepolisproject.com | Criag Jones |Suchitra Vijayan

This text has been edited for length an claritySuchitra Vijayan: In this episode, we will be discussing the important new book The War Lawyers. How do we understand the relationship between war and law especially when law is entangled with the violence it is supposed to regulate?