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Gauhati HC draws a line against automatic family-wide ‘foreigner’ declarations

Setting aside a Foreigners Tribunal order against five children, the High Court ruled that kinship alone cannot determine citizenship status and reiterated that every individual must face an independent legal reference before being declared a foreigner

Pakistan: Requiem for a tradition

Classical music is languishing in PakistanClassical music is standing...

Pakistan: We sinful women

New standard-bearers of progressive Urdu poetry: The feminist poetsAnyone...

Pakistan: Report what?

Simple answers, complex situationsAnis Haroon, the well-known women’s rights...

Deconstructing Godhra

Courtesy: APThe alleged torching alive of 59 persons in...

Discriminatory justice

 The plight of those accused in the Godhra train...

Badge of honour

Courtesy: Getty Images"If observance of Truth was a bed...

Commission and omission

Questions abound about the functioning of the Nanavati-Shah Commission...

Reward and punishment

The role of the Gujarat government in constructing the...

Truth and the Nanavati-Shah Commission

Courtesy: Javed Raja, Indian ExpressIn addition to about 3,500...

Salute to a serving officer

  The extent of state complicity in planning and executing...

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