Suchitra Vijayan complicates and expands our understanding of the South Asian American experience, urging readers to consider stories that cast dark eyes at India, a strategic ally of many Western nations. There are so many nonfiction books about India published yearly but few are so important and subversive. I think this book will change the global conversation about India and shape what gets written in the future about India. IWE is a body of work where the voices of India’s marginalized are still kept on the fringes Midnight’s Borders is a narrative nonfiction book depicting a world that novels from “mainland India” have failed to depict. Midnight’s Borders perhaps also critiques the widely read body of work available as Indian English Writing (IWE), a literary canon that has so far told the story of India but seldom demonstrated social responsibility by acknowledging the atrocities India has committed silently within its borders.

She is actively involved in circulating urgent and underrepresented news from the world through her online platform. Vijayan creates a constellation of micro-histories of people who have lived through the violence that India has committed in its borderlands-injustice that has irrigated the glamour and prosperity we witness in what some of us in those borderlands call “mainland India.” Vijayan, a barrister by profession, is a founding director of Polis Project, a hybrid research and journalism organization in New York. Suchitra Vijayan’s new book, Midnight’s Borders: A People’s History of Modern India, takes a deep look at such stories by prioritizing the experiences of the silenced victims as well as lesser-known accounts from victims of state violence. These are stories of massive human rights violations committed by the Indian state in the country’s margins. In the popular depictions of India circulating in the US, we rarely see the stories that the nation’s jingoistic governments have shoved under the carpet.

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