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Assam NRC: Close to 10,000 People Face Omission; Contempt of Court, says Congress
17 Oct 2020
With elections in Assam due in April or May, the NRC has raised its ugly head again, with observers of the opinion that the move is about assuaging sentiments on the ground.
Peoples Dispatch
Trump Administration Targets China, Revives Red Scare era Immigration Laws
06 Oct 2020
Recently notified naturalization and residence policy guidelines in the United States specify the use of a century-old law to disqualify individuals associated with any communist party.
Namrata Joshi
Revisiting Mumbai Meri Jaan: Hope and Despair in a Tea Cup
26 Aug 2020
We, the citizens of India, are still the quintessential chicken in the film, with too many hawks on as many fronts to battle with.
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COVID-19: CBSE ‘Rationalises’ Syllabus, Chapters on Secularism, Nationalism and Demonetisation Sacrificed
08 Jul 2020
The move by the HRD ministry was to decrease the course load for the students, and lessons on democracy and diversity, demonetisation, nationalism, secularism, India's relations with its neighbours…
Indrajit Roy
Universal Basic Income: Shared Citizenship in Times of Crisis
01 Apr 2020
All, irrespective of wealth, income and employment status must receive exactly the same amount of cash—without compromising welfare programs.
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.