
19-Feb-2020
On Wednesday, Sanjay Hegde and Sadhana Ramachandra, the interlocutors appointed by the Supreme Court reached Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh to mediate with people protesting the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), National Register of Citizens (NRC) and the National Population Register (NPR). Hegde told media persons, “We have come here according to the order of Supreme Court. We…

18-Feb-2020
The burgeoning nationwide movement to resist the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), National Register of Citizens (NRC) and National Population Register (NPR) has helped start dinner table conversations about citizenship and nationhood in many a household. There is tremendous curiosity and persistent confusion given a possibly deliberate attempt by the regime to obfuscate the truth. CJP…

17-Feb-2020
Recently a contingent of 23 Dalit and Adivasi forest workers from Lakhimpur Khikri, Sonbhadra and Manikpur arrived in New Delhi to express solidarity with people protesting the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). The visiting contingent comprised members of the All India Union of Forest Working People (AIUFWP). Just like the protests at Shaheen Bagh are predominantly…

13-Feb-2020
People who have been in Assam’s detention camps for over three years were given some relief in May 2019 when the Supreme Court directed that those who have spent more than three years in captivity be set free subject to certain conditions which included personal bond of Rs 1,00,000. This was during the course of…

07-Feb-2020
The Government of India has suddenly declared that it will conduct a door to door survey to determine the ordinary residents of India from April 2020 to September 2020 (National Population Register-NPR). India is also due for the decennial population survey, the Census in 2021. By clubbing these two processes, one a much needed and…

07-Feb-2020
भारत सरकारने, एप्रिल २०२० ते सप्टेंबर २०२० यादरम्यान पर्यंत भारतातील सामान्य रहिवासी निश्चित करण्यासाठी घरोघरी जाऊन सर्वेक्षण केले जाणार असल्याचे अचानक जाहीर केले (राष्ट्रीय लोकसंख्या नोंदणी-एनपीआर). २०२१ मध्ये भारतात दर दहा वर्षांनी केली जाणारी जनगणना देखील होणे अपेक्षित आहे. एक अत्यंत आवश्यक आणि नियमित प्रक्रिया म्हणजे जनगणना, आणि दुसरी एनपीआर-एनआरसीची विवादास्पद प्रक्रिया, अशा या दोन…

07-Feb-2020
भारत सरकारने, एप्रिल २०२० ते सप्टेंबर २०२० पर्यंत भारतातील सामान्य रहिवासी निश्चित करण्यासाठी घरोघरी जाऊन सर्वेक्षण केले जाणार असल्याचे अचानक जाहीर केले (राष्ट्रीय लोकसंख्या नोंदणी-एनपीआर). २०२१ मध्ये भारतात दर दहा वर्षांनी केली जाणारी जनगणना देखील होणे अपेक्षित आहे. एक अत्यंत आवश्यक आणि नियमित प्रक्रिया म्हणजे जनगणना, आणि दुसरी एनपीआर-एनआरसीची विवादास्पद प्रक्रिया, अशा या दोन प्रक्रियांना…

07-Feb-2020
भारत सरकार ने अचानक घोषणा की है कि अप्रैल 2020 से सितंबर 2020 तक वह भारतीय निवासियों का निर्धारण (राष्ट्रीय जनसंख्या रजिस्टर-एनपीआर) करने के लिए घर घर जाकर सर्वेक्षण करेगी। भारत में दशक में एक बार होने वाला जनसंख्या सर्वेक्षण, सेंसस भी 2021 में होने वाला है। इन दो प्रक्रियाओं, एक जो आवश्यक और नियमित…

01-Feb-2020
In yet another instance of what are being dubbed institutional murders, 42 year old Fayjal Hoque allegedly took his life, unable to cope with anxiety and anguish related to the National Register of Citizens. Hoque was an urban labourer and was found dead at his home in Kodomtola in Barpeta district. He had allegedly committed…

01-Feb-2020
The Government of India has suddenly declared that it will conduct a door to door survey to determine the ordinary residents of India from April 2020 to September 2020 (National Population Register-NPR). India is also due for the decennial population survey, the Census in 2021. By clubbing these two processes, one a much needed and…