Large-Scale Bangladeshi Migration to Assam a Myth?
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Large-Scale Bangladeshi Migration to Assam a Myth?

Debasish Bhattacharjee    Recently, much awaited migration data has been released by Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. While demographers are presumably busy analysing the data, certain preliminary observations are noteworthy, especially in the context of Assam where strong allegation of large-scale illegal migration from Bangladesh has assumed greater significance post NRC….

Economy in Shambles, But PM Asking Culprits for Solution!
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Economy in Shambles, But PM Asking Culprits for Solution!

Subodh Varma    In case you have been wondering why Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been so silent of late, not uttering a word about the CAA/NRC protests and police killings or the continuing horror in Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University or the stream of numbers showing how the economy is in shambles, here is the…

Pan-India NRC May Lead to Initial Exclusion of 10 Crore Applicants
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Pan-India NRC May Lead to Initial Exclusion of 10 Crore Applicants

Amitava Bandyopadhyay   The process of preparation of the National Register of Citizens or NRC may declare a true citizen an illegal immigrant or fail to detect a non-citizen. Erroneously classifying a bona fide citizen as illegal immigrant is called ‘false positive’ and failure to identify a non-citizen is called ‘false negative’. While false negatives…

Shaheen Bagh-Inspired Protests Spread Across the Country 
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Shaheen Bagh-Inspired Protests Spread Across the Country 

Abdul Alim Jafri, Chandni Doulatramani and Ruchika Goswamy   Shaheen Bagh in Allahabad via Kanpur   Inspired by the resilient women of New Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh, whose month-long resistance against the CAA and NRC is making waves, large groups of women began a sit-in protest at Mansoor Ali Park of Roshan Bagh in Uttar Pradesh’s…

CAA–NRC Protests: Why Gandhi Would Have Been Proud of Today’s Youth
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CAA–NRC Protests: Why Gandhi Would Have Been Proud of Today’s Youth

Syed Ubaidur Rahman   Today, as the shadow of eviction confronts the anti-CAA protests that have rocked the Capital’s Shaheen Bagh locality for one month, it is important to note how these protests have contributed to the nation so far. The protests—wherever they have taken place in the country—have had a profound impact on the…