When we were young we used to get scared of the word pulis (Police). No, we were not any gangsters or local trouble making goons. We were scared because we were very simple folks without any connection with either ‘bad people’ or ‘good people’. It was the year 2001 and I was a six-year-old who […]
The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019 came into force on 10 January 2020 (Signed by the President of India on 12 December 2019). It was during those days that Assam saw another violent uprising against the said Bill. Although the central and state governments promised that there was no need to worry, the people of Assam
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The Rohingya people are stateless Indo-Aryan people from the Rakhine state of Myanmar. However, the Government of Myanmar does not recognize them as citizens. They are rather accorded the status of illegal immigrants from neighbouring Bangladesh albeit they have been living in Myanmar for centuries. As reported in the Independent, ‘At least 10,000 members of
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