-The Indian Express From Dalit basti in Gaya to village near Dhanbad, refrain: humein kaun hatayega (who will turn us out?) Gaya, Kolkata, Lucknow: In the Scheduled Caste basti in Gewalbigha, Gaya, about 2 km from the day-and-night dharna against the CAA-NRC-NPR in Shantibagh, a group of men, all safai karamcharis with the Nagar Nigam, cheeks smeared with the bright pink abeer (coloured powder) of Saraswati puja, talk of the citizenship issue...
More »SEARCH RESULT
The new challenge for Census 2021 -Devesh Kapur and Neelanjan Sircar
-Hindustan Times The CAA-NPR-NRC controversy may deter citizens from offering authentic information Amid the anger and acrimony over the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), the National Population Register (NPR), and a possible National Register of Citizens (NRC), which the government has said has not been finalised yet, there has been little thought regarding its effects on another growing challenge — the quality of official data. In the last few years, official data...
More »Kannan Gopinathan, former IAS officer and anti-CAA-NRIC-NPR activist, interviewed by Revathi Siva Kumar (The Hindu)
-The Hindu For the first time, the Muslim community is asserting its religious identity as well as its Indian identity, says the IAS officer who quit office to protest the J&K lockdown Kannan Gopinathan, the former IAS officer, first caught the nation’s eye when he stepped down from the service to protest the lockdown in Jammu and Kashmir. He resigned as secretary, power department of the Union Territories of Daman and Diu,...
More »CAA-NPR-NRC will harm de-notified and nomadic tribes the most -Varsha Torgalkar
-Newsclick.in In Maharashtra, most DNTs don’t have houses or villages, no ID cards or birth or land certificates. Not even burial places. Pune: De-notified and nomadic tribes (DNTs), many of whom still don’t have identity cards, are still unaware of CAA, NRC and NPR (Citizenship Amendment Act, National Register of Citizens and National Population Register). But activists and academicians from the tribes have begun an awareness drive asking them not to submit...
More »Refrain within BJP: Economy big worry, may spill onto streets -Ravish Tiwari
-The Indian Express The BJP leaders, however, said they hope the Budget may be able to instill some confidence and arrest the current downward slide. While the BJP has publicly ratcheted up heat against CAA-NPR-NRC protests with an eye on Delhi elections, several responsible functionaries within the party and the government privately acknowledge that economic slowdown as the real concern. “The biggest fear is if growth doesn’t pick up, it will spill onto...
More »