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Suchitra Vijayan retweeted
The Polis Project’s forthcoming Legal Atlas traces the disappearance of rights across India. Check out our video for a sneak peek of what to expect. And stay tuned for the launch on August 15.
Suchitra Vijayan retweeted
Legal Atlas is our new open resource tracking legislation in India since 2014.
This Friday, join our free webinar as we walk through our findings and how it can be used by journalists and researchers.
August 14, 7:30pm IST | 10am EST
Register: streamyard.com/watch/MPfMc8y…
Suchitra Vijayan retweeted
TOMORROW we'll do a live walk through of our new open resource tool, the Legal Atlas. It traces the slow erosion of rights in India since 2014 through legislation all mapped in one place.
Register at the link below and join us at 10am EST/7:30pm IST.
streamyard.com/watch/MPfMc8y…
Suchitra Vijayan retweeted
Frontline's latest e-book on anti-caste music. With profiles of some brilliant performers, interviews, and pieces that look at how music becomes a liberation. Put together with passion and care by @ayesha_minhaz
Available on Amazon: amazon.in/dp/B0HDZ1ZNHB
Join us tomorrow 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾
Legal Atlas is our new open resource tracking legislation in India since 2014.
This Friday, join our free webinar as we walk through our findings and how it can be used by journalists and researchers.
August 14, 7:30pm IST | 10am EST
Register: streamyard.com/watch/MPfMc8y…
Tomorrow, between 4 and 6 pm, I’ll be doing the first walkthrough of Unruly Bodies, the show I curated from the Avtar Foundation’s art collection at Alliance Française, Chennai. @AFMadras
From significant Modern artists like F. N. Souza, drawing a thread downwards to Gulam Mohammed Sheikh and into contemporary practices like that of Shilpa Gupta, Vikrant Bhise, Varunika Saraf alongside young emerging talents like Saviya Lopes, Salik Ansari, Rah Naqvi and Nitheen Ramalingam.
4–6 pm, tomorrow.
Alliance Française, Chennai.
Come by.
Suchitra Vijayan retweeted
My wife’s powerful article in today’s Indian Express. “His words are free, my son is not”
Six years of incarceration without trial is not justice—it is discrimination,
You may imprison a person, but you cannot imprison his words, silence his ideas, or put his thoughts behind bars
“The penance that lacerates itself”
In a bizarre statement after being convicted in the 2013 rape case, former Tehelka editor Tarun Tejpal compared himself to jailed activists Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam, claiming he too was a "political victim." "Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam are in jail. I'm also one of them," Tejpal said while seeking leniency in sentencing after the Bombay High Court overturned his acquittal and convicted him.
The remarks have triggered sharp reactions, with many questioning Tejpal's attempt to equate his conviction in a rape case with the incarceration of political activists. Watch this report for the full story and Tejpal's complete statement.
Suchitra Vijayan retweeted
For two years, Afreen Fatima documented the demolition of Muslim homes across northern India.
She interviewed families and walked through the rubble left behind by bulldozers.
She never told readers that her own home had been demolished too.
Read more
thepolisproject.com/research…
Suchitra Vijayan retweeted
What happens next for India's Gen-Z protests?
Join us live on Instagram tomorrow as our journalists go behind the scenes of reporting from the ground in Delhi.
Featuring @suchitrav, Anahita Ahluwalia, Aabha Muralidharan and Chaitali Mitra.
“The playbook’s been in place for about over a decade - take legitimate dissent and criticism and turn it into an act of terror.” — @suchitrav
I spoke to @AJListeningPost about the #Genz protests in India
“The playbook’s been in place for about over a decade - take legitimate dissent and criticism and turn it into an act of terror.”
@suchitrav, @TheDeshBhakt and @neerjachowdhury spoke with us about India’s Cockroach Janta Party protests and how mainstream media there failed to meet the moment.
Full report ▶️ youtu.be/x50X9iEyVMI
Suchitra Vijayan retweeted
“The playbook’s been in place for about over a decade - take legitimate dissent and criticism and turn it into an act of terror.”
@suchitrav, @TheDeshBhakt and @neerjachowdhury spoke with us about India’s Cockroach Janta Party protests and how mainstream media there failed to meet the moment.
Full report ▶️ youtu.be/x50X9iEyVMI
Suchitra Vijayan retweeted
Some of this is not a surprise. Military weapons have been creeping into Indian police forces -- see this: thepolisproject.com/read/ind…. And yet, to see them used on students (after unarmed protesters in Ladakh two years ago) is staggering all the same. cc: @suchitrav, @svaradarajan
सीवान में पुलिस ने भीड़ पर सीधी फायरिंग की। AK-47 से फायरिंग की गई। भीड़ को हटाने के लिए पुलिस ने पहले आंसू गैस के गोले दागे, इसके बाद 10 राउंड से अधिक सीधी फायरिंग होने की बात कही जा रही है। वहीं, प्रदर्शनकारियों की ओर से हुई पत्थरबाजी में सीवान एसपी पूरन झा के हाथ में चोट लगी।
#Siwan #Bihar #BiharBandh #StudentProtest #StonePelting #Police #BreakingNews #BiharNews @RJDforIndia @INCIndia @INCBihar @yadavtejashwi @jansuraajonline
Suchitra Vijayan retweeted
In eastern India, police have launched a fresh wave of student arrests even as the Union government agreed to withdraw criminal cases against NEET exam leak protesters.
Read the latest by @suchitrav from Patna.
#DelhiStudentProtests
thepolisproject.com/read/cen…
Four days after students across Bihar filled the streets over a leaked medical-entrance exam, as part of the countrywide wave of protests tied to the Coakroach Janta Party (CJP) -led student agitation in Delhi, police officers in Patna named 285 people in cases registered at three stations: Kotwali, Gandhi Maidan and the Secretariat and, alongside them, opened 24 cases against about 5,000 unnamed people they could not identify. thepolisproject.com/read/cen…
Suchitra Vijayan retweeted
Over 86 students in Patna have been sent to Beur Jail for participation in protests.
Suchitra Vijayan retweeted
The fundamental demand was the complete withdrawal of all cases against the protesters. Yet, disturbing reports continue to emerge from Assam, West Bengal, and particularly Patna where detentions and incidents of police firing have been reported. Who is directing the police? Is it the Home Minister? If the understanding was to withdraw all cases, it makes little sense for authorities to continue registering FIRs while simultaneously dismissing protesters as so-called 'anti-social elements.' Many of these cases, in fact, have been filed against Muslim students.
Suchitra Vijayan retweeted
biased to the wire but also: @ravish_journo @thecaravanindia @newslaundry @MnshaP @RanaAyyub @UFbySamdishh (shoutout to camera person parth)
@vijaita @the_hindu @suchitrav
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Kudos to @svaradarajan and @thewire_in for their coverage of the student protests in India: good articles and great discussions and videos.
Delhi Student Protest: At Least Three Pellet Injuries, Two Forces, One Ministry, And No Answers - The Polis Project thepolisproject.com/read/stu… by @aritry and R Gupta
