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Sharing borders with six countries and spanning a geography that extends from Pakistan to Myanmar, India is the world's largest democracy and second most populous country. It is also the site of the world's biggest crisis of statelessness, as it strips citizenship from hundreds of thousands of its people--especially those living in disputed border regions. Suchitra Vijayan traveled India's vast land border to explore how these populations live, and document how even places just few miles apart can feel like entirely different countries. In this stunning work of narrative reportage, we hear from those whose stories are never told: from children playing a cricket match in no-man's-land, to an elderly man living in complete darkness after sealing off his home from the floodlit border; from a woman who fought to keep a military bunker off of her land, to those living abroad who can no longer find their family history in India. With profound empathy and a novelistic eye for detail, Vijayan brings us face to face with the brutal legacy of colonialism, state violence, and government corruption. The result is a gripping, urgent dispatch from a modern India in crisis, and the full and vivid portrait of the country we've long been missing.

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Suchitra Vijayan was born and raised in Madras, India. Her work has appeared in the Washington Post, GQ, the Boston Review, the Nation, and Foreign Policy. A barrister by training, she previously worked for the United Nations war crimes tribunals in Yugoslavia and Rwanda before cofounding the Resettlement Legal Aid Project in Cairo, which gives legal aid to Iraqi refugees. She is an award-winning photographer, as well as the founder and executive director of the Polis Project, a hybrid research and journalism organization. She lives in New York. Sunny Patel, a London native, is an actor on stage and screen who has been voice acting for half a decade. Sunny is of Indian descent; his heritage comes from the Gujarat state of India, and he speaks multiple languages. However, he was born and bred in North West London. He has traveled all over the world and has worked as a teacher, a journalist, and an activist for human rights NGOs in Cape Town. Sunny has been narrating books since 2017, and he loves the craft of assimilating accents, or even just doing mimicry, in order help bring stories to life with an assortment of characters that we meet on a day to basis. He lives on his own in South London and in his spare time, he enjoys going for walks, writing poems, doodling, singing, and spending time with friends.

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