About the podcast

It's Not You, It's The Media

Are you questioning your reality? Do you feel gaslighted? It's not you, it's the media.

Suchitra Vijayan, Bhakti Shringarpure and Madhuri Sastry will join forces to eviscerate the propaganda, set the record straight and offer much needed moral clarity.

Tune in each week.

It's Not You, It's the Media.

A podcast by the Polis Project. https://www.thepolisproject.com/

Hosts:

Suchitra Vijayan is a writer, photographer and activist. She is the founder and Executive Director of The Polis Project. For her first book, The Midnight's Border: A People's History of India, Suchitra traveled across the 9000-mile Indian border. 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 the co-author of How Long Can the Moon Be Caged? Voices of Indian Political Prisoners (2023) which offers a lens into today's India through the lived experiences of political prisoners.

Bhakti Shringarpure is a writer and writer. She is the co-founder of Warscapes magazine which transitioned into the Radical Books Collective, a multi-faceted community building project that creates an alternative, inclusive and non-commercial approach to books and reading. Bhakti is the author of Cold War Assemblages: Decolonization to Digital (2019) and editor of Literary Sudans: An Anthology of Literature from Sudan and South Sudan (2017), Imagine Africa (2017) Mediterranean: Migrant Crossings (2018) and most recently, Insurgent Feminisms: Writing War (2023).

Madhuri Sastry is a writer with a human rights law background. She is on the advisory board of The Polis Project. Her writing has appeared in several publications including Slate, Guernica, Catapult, and Bitch.