Modi Lies To The Nation On NRC
Prime Minister Narendra Modi lied to the nation claiming that there never was a pan India National Register of Citizens (NRC). Launching BJP's election campaign in Delhi he said, “Has…
Citizenship Amendment Act
Let’s talk NPR !!!
The mediadarbar.com published a story[1] to explain CAA and NRIC. the story goes like this: A pilot reaches a village with a big aircraft and offers a free ride to…
The Bravehearts Protesting in India
Yesterday, the 20th of December, marked the anniversary of Adolf Hitler’s release from prison after a failed attempt to seize power. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU5YJ4rcs1s&feature=emb_title While he was behind bars, he wrote his…
Resisting the footfalls of a Genocide
As the country offers stiff resistance to the government’s agenda of polarizing the society, the factors at play are not confined to persecution of religious minorities alone. It is a…
Admit That the Waters Around You Have Grown
The waters of fascism have risen in the country where I was born and the country where I have citizenship. Both countries need sustained, non-violent, mass protest to demand the…
I Will Give My Blood:Chandrasekhar Azad
Historic speech given by Chandrasekhar Azad on the steps of Delhi Jama Masjid "Jai Bhim! This is a bigger fight. CAA and NRC will break this country and we are…
Modi’s veiled attack on dress as identity reveals his stark bigotry
Jo aag laga rahe hain, TV pe unke jo drishya aa rahe hain, yeh aag lagaane vaale kaun hain, woh unke kapdon se hi pata chal jaata hai (From the visuals…
Protest Against CAA Held In The Hague
In solidarity with the protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 "India cannot cease to be one nation, because people belonging to different religions live in it. ... In no…
Statement from Indian recipients of the Magsaysay Award Against CAA
We, the Indian recipients of the Magsaysay Award, would like to express our deep sense of concern and anguish at the passing into Law, of the Citizenship Amendment Bill –…
Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) andresistance to the Majoritarian discourse at the ‘Northeast Frontier’ and Beyond
Co-Written by Bikash Sarma and Shofiul A. Pathan Meghalaya Governor Tathagata Roy recently tweeted,“A democracy is necessarily divisive. If you do not want it, go to North Korea”, even before…
CAB Debate: Falsehoods to the Fore
Citizenship Amendment Bill, while passed in both houses of Parliament has elicited diverse and negative responses all over India. On one hand we see massive protests in North East leading…
I’m A Pigeon
I'm a pigeon with legs tied up, Everyday they feed me with donations grains.. They assured me to be in safe, and I suffocate every moment, dying of my freedom.…
Listen Seriously : India’s youth has spoken against divisive politics
The nation wide protests against #CAA and #NRC has reflected the mood of the nation and categorically rejected the attempt to divide this country and create a brahmanical theocratic state…
Protest Against Citizenship Amendment Act Widens In India, Hundreds of Protestors Detained
Hundreds of protestors were detained across India on Thursday as authorities clamped down on protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act. Senior advocate Prashant Bhushan, social activist Harsh Mander, scholar Yogendra…
ASSAM SHAN’T BLEED AGAIN- The Current Citizenship Amendment Bill Row
As we stand in the third decade of astructural economic reform, we must question every side of the coin about their intentions before taking any particular side. The same…
People’s Alliance for Democracy and Secularism Denounces Citizenship Amendment Act and the National Register of Citizens
People’s Alliance for Democracy and Secularism strongly condemns the Citizenship Amendment Act(CAA) passed by the Parliament on Dec 11,2019. Modi government used its brute majority to force it through the…
Hyderabad Muslim Women’s Forum Codemns Attack On Students
Solidarity statement by Hyderabad Muslim Women’s Forum against the police action on students of Jamia Milia Islamia University and Aligarh Muslim University Jamia Milia Islamia University, New Delhi became the…
Why I’m Protesting: BJP’s Citizenship Bill Mirrors Nuremberg Laws
When Nazi Germany passed the Nuremberg Laws in 1935, they made it illegal for non-Germans to be citizens. Germans to prove that they had Aryan ancestry. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XWHGh7fYkY&feature=emb_title India’s Citizenship Amendment…
The Spectre of Jamia: Violation of a safe space
Co-Written by Ushosee Pal & Sanchari Basu Chaudhuri Time and again, students have shown the way to dissent peacefully and demand change. And, Friday, the 13th was no different. Three…
Thanks Jamia students for putting your lives on the line, for speaking truth to power – for all of us!
The end, hopefully, of Jantar-Mantarisation of people’s resistance It took the lesser-in-the-news, supposedly less-flashy Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) to change the complexion of resistance in the country. While we…
Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019: A step Towards Hindu Rashtra?
The Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 was brought as a Citizenship Amendment Bill for the purpose of amending the Citizenship Act of 1955 to make illegal migrants who are Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan, who entered India on or…
Renegades vs the true children of Mother India
There's a well-known story, often included in children's story anthologies, about the legendary wisdom of King Solomon. Once a dispute between two women was brought to him to resolve. Both…
Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019 and the threats upon the Assamese Community
Co-Written by Bishaldeep Kakati and Pranjit Das There was a time when the tales of the Assam Agitation were simply a part of history, for all those who were born…
Anti CAB Protests: Hope for protecting India
India is witnessing a set of massive protests against the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB). These protests do offer a ray of hope of preserving and protecting the idea of ‘secular’…
STOP! The Police violence against students and those protesting the CAA!
PUCL strongly condemns the motivated, targeted and brutal attack by the CRPF and Delhi Police on students of Aligarh Muslim University and Jamia Millia Islamia University in Delhi yesterday, Sunday…
Students Across India Rise Up In Anger After Jamia Milia Crack Down Against Citizenship Amendment Act
Students rose up across India against the unconstitutional Citizenship Amendment Act after their compatriots in Jamia Milia Islamia were violently beaten up in their campus yesterday. Police in both Delhi…
Delhi Police Forcefully Enter Jamia Milia Islamia University; Many Students Injured
Co- written by Badre Alam Khan, Wakeel Ahmed and Wasim Ahsan The Delhi Police have forcefully entered Jamia Milia Islamia (JMI) university campus without the any permission of university administration…
No time to hide for India’s Muslims
"Where do we go from here?" asked a US-based Indian Muslim friend the morning after India lurched further to the right with the smooth passage of the Citizenship Amendment Bill.…
Time For A Unified Protest
Martin Neimoller's confessional poem of how he, a Protestant pastor, did not care or ignored the rise of Hitler and Nazism in Germany , and how they arrested or persecuted…
New citizenship law in India ‘fundamentally discriminatory’: UN human rights office
A new law in India which expedites citizenship for certain religious minorities has been criticized by the UN human rights office for being “fundamentally discriminatory in nature.” The amendment to…
Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019: A Hate Driven Move
PUCL Call to Citizens to launch Non-Cooperation Movement against CAA & NRC PUCL deplores the promulgation of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 on 12th December, as a law which renders…
Kerala Will Not Implement Citizenship Amendment Bill; Joins Bengal And Punjab In Opposing It
The Kerala government has decided not to implement the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill enacted by the Centre, calling it unconstitutional. Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan told reporters in Thiruvananthapuram on Thursday…
Left Parties To Organise Joint Protest On December 19 Against CAB-NRC
The Left parties – Communist Party of India (Marxist), Communist Party of India, Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist)-Liberation, All India Forward Bloc and Revolutionary Socialist Party – have issued the…
An India that wasn’t
Both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha have passed the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB). With this India moves one more step further towards ‘Hindu Rashtra’ an anti-thesis to the idea of…
Funeral of Democracy
Funeral of your democracy warned foresighted ages ago. In spite of fellow beings, you burn your abode willfully. Many nations have been here, reckoning to be invincible Little did they…
The Citizenship Amendment Bill is an attack on the secular and democratic character of India
The Constitution of India guarantees the right to citizenship for all Indians; irrespective of their religion, caste, language, culture, gender or profession. This very right is being made void by…
Citizenship Amendment Bill 2019: Proposal & Reactions
Bringing unity in diversity by harmonizing the opposing forces of centripetal and centrifugal trends in the country for the achievement of common national goals is the purpose of federalism in…
Why Citizenship Amendment Bill be rejected?
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led government at the centre is all set to introduce the controversial Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) in the Parliament on December 9. The existing Citizenship…
Citizenship Amendment Bill Is Unconstitutional
The proposed Citizenship amendment bill is an assault on the Constitution of India which never based our citizenship on our religious or caste identities. On the one side, the government…
Citizenship Amendment Bill – Wrong Medicine to the Right Diagnosis
Can you relate to the feeling of being trapped in a world where your identity is in your enemy? Can you relate to anger the accompanies when the language you…
Burning Assam in the name of foreigners
It was a spectacular rally in the pre-historic city of Guwahati on 23 January last that strongly opposed the Indian Union government’s latest initiative to amend the country’s citizenship act…
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