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The Battle of Belonging: Why India’s Passport Controversy Matters
A passport is undeniably a travel document, but it is also the republic’s assurance of belonging and sovereign protection in moments of crisis. Reducing it to mere travel facilitation strips it of its civic meaning, since passports are issued not to transients but to members of a political community.
Eerie calm at JNU, women students leave hostel
In light of the violence, many women students have left campus fearing for their safety
Come rain or cold, Assam protests go on
The artists community in Assam was joined by the All Assam Students’ Union (AASU) for a protest rally against CAA. The eastern India is indeed keeping the flame of protests burning. Bengal also simultaneously held protest marches with its Matua community and Gorakha Janmukti Morcha (Tamang) marching on.
MP Elamaran Kareem urges President to probe JNU violence
The Rajya Sabha MP in his letter to the President also appealed to him to evict the Vice Chancellor of JNU
Police failure to protect JNU from terror attack needs to be independently investigated
Image Courtesy: countercurrents.orgThe terror attack on JNU last night...
CJP’s big win: SC hears petition, orders no children be sent to detention camps in Assam
CJP’s application sought directions from the apex court that drew attention to the Constitutional, legal obligations and prayed, specifically that no child excluded from the NRC is either sent to detention camps nor separated from their parents in Assam.
Express yourself without fear: Faculty to IIT Kanpur students
They wrote in support of students reciting Faiz’s poem “Hum Dekhenge” during anti-CAA protest
BJP and its attempts to get support for a law it passed, without due democratic debate
The BJP is conducting door-to-door campaigns, distributing pamphlets, running a missed-call campaign as it clearly struggles to make its CAA support campaign look bigger than the widespread protests.
Another death in Assam’s detention camp brings the total to 29
The total has now gone up to 29 deaths in Assam’s detention camps raising some serious questions on the condition of inmates and the claims made by government about good facilities.
Jamia issues press statement condemning JNU violence
Jamia, DU and JNU to go on a fact-finding mission regarding violent attacks on JNU students
Bengal: Matuas and Gorkha Janmukti Morcha march against CAA on same day
The nation-wide campaign against CAA refuses to die down as West Bengal continues to erupt in protests every now and then. The sentiment against the law is quite stout as is demonstrated by the protestors.
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