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EPISODE · Mar 16, 2026 · 4 MIN

PROLOGUE: The Night the Sky Cracked Open with Fire

from The Great Unrooting

Welcome to The Great Unrooting, a five-episode narrative podcast special season of Rights & Wrongs that explores what it means to lose home — and what it takes to start again. Anchored in the story of Maung, a Rohingya refugee now living in New York, the series traces his journey of flight, survival, and rebuilding and explores displacement at a moment when more people are forcible displaced than at any point since World War II.Excerpt from forthcoming poem, "The Rusted Key" by Kumar M. Tiku.

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