Suchitra Vijayan

#ReadandElect @suchitravijayan ’s compelling narrative delves into the ever-changing relationship between nations and borders, looking at how borders define people and their nationalism. Pick up Midnight’s Borders this #Election2024 season. #Election2024 #GeneralElection2024 #indiavotes #vote #electoral #booksbooksbooks #readandelect #elections #politics #indianpolitic #vote #generalelections #border #nations #boundaries #midnightsborder

If you haven’t encountered me online, I’m Suchitra Vijayan. I’m the author of Midnight’s Borders: A People’s History of Modern India. A child of Madras. New Yorker. I founded and run The Polis Project, a New York-based global magazine of dissent. I’m a professor. I make a mean mutton fry and rasam.

Three remarkable writers, @zarachowdhary @arunikashyap , and @anjalienjeti came to New York for what was one of the most important conversations we’ve had in a really long time about what it means to write about democracy in America. It became an incredibly important and cathartic conversation about writing in times of genocide, writing about American violence, and linking it back to their own histories— Gujarat, Assam, and the American South. The energy in the room was phenomenal. The kind of conversation that reminds you why spaces and conversations like this matter. We’ll have the event videos out soon. In the meantime, if you want to continue supporting and being part of our conversations, subscribe to our New York newsletter. Link in bio.

The news cycle can be confusing and overwhelming. To make sense of it all, Suchitra Vijayan (@suchitravijayan ) breaks down the week’s three biggest headlines. Have a question? Leave a comment!

The news cycle can be confusing and overwhelming. To make sense of it all, Suchitra Vijayan (@suchitravijayan ) breaks down the three biggest headlines every week. Have a question? Leave it in the comments!

The news cycle can be confusing and overwhelming. To make sense of it all, Suchitra Vijayan (@suchitravijayan ) breaks down the three biggest headlines every week. Have a question? Leave it in the comments!

What does it mean to write America now? We bring together four writers to reflect on what it means to report on, live in, and make sense of a country we call home at a time of deep political rupture. What does it mean to tell stories with rigour and care, without collapsing into despair or propaganda? How do we write democracy as it is lived, contested, and enforced today? Nearly two centuries ago, Alexis de Tocqueville travelled across the United States and wrote ‘Democracy in America’ as an outsider trying to understand the country’s political experiment. This conversation returns to that impulse, but from a different lens. What does it mean now for writers of the diaspora to move through America and write about it, not as distant observers, but as people shaped by and implicated in its systems of power? We’re joined by: Aruni Kashyap (@arunikashyap ): Author of ‘The Way You Want To Be Loved’, ‘The House With a Thousand Stories’, and the forthcoming ‘How to Date a Fanatic. Zara Chowdhary (@zarachowdhary ): Writer, producer, and educator; author of ‘The Lucky Ones. Anjali Enjeti (@anjalienjeti ): Journalist, activist, poll worker, and former attorney; author of ‘Southbound’, ‘The Parted Earth’, and ‘Ballot’. Suchitra Vijayan (@suchitravijayan ): Executive Director of The Polis Project; author of ‘Midnight’s Borders’, and ‘How Long Can the Moon Be Caged?’ May 15, Friday | 6 to 9 p.m. The People’s Forum, 320 W 37th St, New York, NY Get your tickets at the link in bio.

The news cycle can be confusing and overwhelming. To make sense of it all, every week, Suchitra Vijayan (@suchitravijayan ) breaks down the week’s biggest headlines.

The news cycle can be confusing and overwhelming. To make sense of it all, Suchitra Vijayan (@suchitravijayan ) breaks down the week’s biggest headlines.

The news cycle can be confusing and overwhelming. Our Founding Editor, Suchitra Vijayan (@suchitravijayan ), breaks down three of the biggest headlines each week. Have a question? Leave a comment below!

Obama did more to expand executive power than any other modern president in recent history— and the unchecked precedents he set are a direct reason we are now seeing the extent of what the Trump presidency feels entitled to do. Three facts worth remembering: Obama ordered the military intervention in Libya and the removal of Muammar Qaddafi without Congressional authorization, defying the War Powers Resolution entirely. He ordered the drone strike killing of Anwar al-Awlaki an American citizen with no charge, no trial, and no due process, making the executive branch judge, jury, and executioner of its own citizens. And his administration oversaw and defended one of the most expansive mass surveillance programs in American history, collecting data on millions of ordinary Americans while his Director of National Intelligence actively lied to Congress about its scope. This conversation with Colbert is part of a coordinated PR campaign surrounding the Obama Foundation launch and a deliberate effort to shape a legacy that, for many people, is going to be interpreted very differently than his supporters would like.