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…

A Million Mutinies Tied Together by Humanity and Hope
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A Million Mutinies Tied Together by Humanity and Hope

Prem Panicker   It was the Bharatiya Janata Party’s New Year gift for a bigoted base that did the party proud in the 2019 general election. It turned out to be the inflection point, the wedge driven deep into the subcutaneous fissures in society that cracked the country wide open—and look where we are now….

An Open Letter to the Citizens of India
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An Open Letter to the Citizens of India

Constitutional Conduct Group   A group of 106 former senior bureaucrats with the government of India have organised themselves as the Constitutional Conduct Group. Most of them were IAS, and include IPS, IRS, IFS officials. They include top former Secretaries, DGPs and even RAW officials. The signatories include former National Security Advisor Shivshankar Menon; former…

Shaheen Bagh: Thousands Say in One Voice—Nothing Less Than CAA Roll-Back
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Shaheen Bagh: Thousands Say in One Voice—Nothing Less Than CAA Roll-Back

Tarique Anwar   A record crowd of over 50,000 people gathered at the protest site at Shaheen Bagh in Jamia nagar locality in Southeast Delhi on Sunday, January 12 evening to extend solidarity to protesting women, who have been staging a ‘dharna’ (sit-in) at Kalindi Kunj-Noida highway for the past 28 days—protesting against the  CAA–NPR–NRC….

US Is a Rogue State and Suleimani’s Assassination Confirms It
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US Is a Rogue State and Suleimani’s Assassination Confirms It

  C.J. Polychroniou interviews Noam Chomsky   C.J. Polychroniou (CJP): Noam, the US assassination of Iran’s Quds Force commander Qassim Suleimani has reaffirmed Washington’s long-held obsession with Tehran and its clerical regime, which goes all the way back to the late 1970s. What is the conflict between US and Iran all about, and does the…