Suchitra Vijayan - Incite at Columbia University

Suchitra Vijayan is an author, photographer, curator, and barrister. She is the author of the critically acclaimed Midnight’s Borders: A People’s History of Modern India and How Long Can the Moon Be Caged? Voices of India’s Political Prisoners. A 2023 New York Foundation for the Arts Nonfiction Fellow, she is the founder and executive director of The Polis Project, a New York-based global magazine of dissent.

Vijayan is currently the Chair of the International Human Rights Committee at the New York City Bar Association. She previously worked with the UN War Crimes Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, co-founded the Settlement Legal Aid Project for Iraqi refugees in Cairo, and teaches at New York University and Columbia University.