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….

Interview: ‘We Have Practically Lost Kashmir,’ Says P. Chidambaram
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Interview: ‘We Have Practically Lost Kashmir,’ Says P. Chidambaram

The Wire Staff   “We have practically lost Kashmir,” former Union home minister P. Chidambaram said about the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Central government’s Kashmir policy in an interview to The Wire.   Appearing on the National Security Conversations show hosted by Happymon Jacob, the senior Congress leader argued that by carrying out fundamental changes in…

In Spite of Severe Repression, People are United in Protests
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In Spite of Severe Repression, People are United in Protests

Sandeep Pandey, Anandi Pandey    At New Delhi’s Jamia Millia University if one visits the library it may appear as if a pitched battle was fought here. Almost all glasses have been broken by tear gas shells or stun grenades and furniture has been vandalised. And this was in response to some peaceful protests outside…

Battle for India’s Soul: A Century-Long Struggle Against the Mahatma’s Vision 
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Battle for India’s Soul: A Century-Long Struggle Against the Mahatma’s Vision 

Harsh Mander    A hundred years have passed since a battle was launched for the soul of this ancient land. At stake was the country we would together build after the British left our shores.   This was the time when Mahatma Gandhi returned from South Africa to join India’s freedom struggle. In his leadership…

It’s Time to Tell Amit Shah and Narendra Modi, ‘Hum Sab JNU’
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It’s Time to Tell Amit Shah and Narendra Modi, ‘Hum Sab JNU’

Siddharth Varadarajan   Let us set aside the anger and revulsion, disbelief, helplessness and perhaps even fear that many of you would have felt over Sunday night’s events at Jawaharlal Nehru University, and let us also postpone the question of who those masked thugs were that beat up students and faculty, and destroyed public property…