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India\\u2019s border meanders over 9,000 miles from Pakistan to Myanmar, crossing desert, fertile plains, rivers, and snow-capped mountains. India\\u2019s border is also the site of a massive crisis of statelessness, with hundreds of thousands of people stripped of their citizenship and entangled in the region\\u2019s ever-shifting\\u2014 and often arbitrary\\u2014 boundaries.

Suchitra Vijayan took us to the thick of it in her book Midnight\\u2019s Borders: A People\\u2019s History of Modern India, detailing seven years of travel amongst people living in the margins of her home country. Through vivid and painful vignettes, Vijayan captured human stories that would otherwise remain untold; and in doing so, brings the impacts of a legacy of colonialism, state violence, and government corruption into clear view.

Suchitra Vijayan\\xa0was born and raised in Madras, India. Her work has appeared in\\xa0The Washington Post, GQ, The Boston Review, The Nation,\\xa0and\\xa0Foreign Policy. A Barrister by training, she previously worked for the United Nations war crimes tribunals in Yugoslavia and Rwanda before co-founding the Resettlement Legal Aid Project in Cairo, which gives legal aid to Iraqi refugees. She is an award-winning photographer and the founder and executive director of the Polis Project, a hybrid research and journalism organization. She lives in New York.

Dr. Amrita Ghosh\\xa0is a research fellow at SASNET (South Asia Center, Sweden) and an associate faculty member at the Brooklyn Institute of Social Research. Ghosh is also co-editor of the coming anthology:\\xa0Tagore and Yeats: A Postcolonial Reenvisioning (2021),\\xa0which covers themes of translation, authorship, the Nobel controversy between the two writers.

Buy the Book: Midnight\'s Borders: A People\'s History of Modern India (Hardcover)\\xa0Elliott Bay Books

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