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ICF Team
When No Documents Will Serve To Prove Citizenship
26 Feb 2020
Under the terms of the NRC, any one of fourteen documents will suffice to establish a claim to citizenship. However, the fifteen official documents that Jabeda Begum submitted in support of her claim…
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Burden of Proving Citizenship on Claimant: Gauhati HC
25 Feb 2020
Nur Begum and Jabeda Begum had produced eight and 14 documents, respectively, supporting their plea challenging the orders of Foreigners Tribunals, which had declared them foreigners/illegal…
Partha S. Ghosh
CAA: A Tired Game that Needs to be Retired
13 Feb 2020
The newly-amended citizenship law displays neither statesmanship nor statecraft. It will only create millions of ‘paper citizens’, an appalling outcome.
Karwan e Mohabbat
Basant Panchmi and Season of Protests at Nizamuddin Dargah
07 Feb 2020
This year the festival of spring also unfolded the festival of democracy and citizen's rights as women and children staged a 24x7 sit-in protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act.
Gautam Navlakha
CAA, NRC Protests: Never Too Late to Do the Right Thing
26 Dec 2019
A movement for inclusive citizenship must be infused with solidarity.
Ajaz Ashraf
Students’ Anti-CAA Protests Resurrect Ideal of Equality
17 Dec 2019
Jamia student Anugya’s evocative byte to TV channels shows youth resistance to Hindutva.
Ajaz Ashraf
When Will Pavan Varma and Abdul Khaliq’s Conscience Prick Over CAB?
10 Dec 2019
The craving for syncretic India should go beyond daydreaming in opinion columns.
Shakuntala Rao
Citizen Cannon: Why India’s Ugly NRC is Not Unique
04 Nov 2019
Indians may fall afoul of Op Janus’ racial, ethnic and religious exclusions.
Tarique Anwar
How Assam NRC Made a Woman Break Barriers and Fight for People in Need
01 Nov 2019
After Ashraf Ali walked out of a detention centre following a two years, two months and seventeen days-long battle, his wife Tara Khatoon vowed to make sure that others don’t suffer the trauma they…
Karwan e Mohabbat
The Real Motive Behind an All-India NRC
25 Oct 2019
Senior advocate Prashant Bhushan systematically exposes the unconstitutional processes followed by the Foreigners' Tribunals in Assam.