Email: sabrangind@gmail.com
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.
Amit Shah’s defence of CAB shames even Goebbels!
The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019 (CAB) that promises to...
Modi’s India & Hitler’s Third Reich: a look at the Nuremberg laws
CAB 2019, discriminatory citizenship and now a nationwide NPR-NRC:Is...
Stand Up for the Constitution #Scrap CAB 2019 #NoNRC say Indians!
Over 720 Indians, writers, actors, activists and citizens are speaking up against both, CAB 2019 and the NPR-NRC
The anti-CAB stir intensifies in Assam
A 11-hour bandh had been called in the state to pressure the government to revoke the unconstitutional CAB
48-hr Mobile Internet Ban as NE boils Over Citizenship Amendment Bill: Tripura
In view of the fast detiorating situation, the state government said that it is prohibiting use of SMS and mobile data for 48 hours, beginning 2pm on Tuesday. This shall be applicable for press messages also, the letter read.
MLA Jignesh Mevani suspended from Gujarat Assembly
He was suspended after he called out the BJP’s actions offering lip service towards following the Constitution of India
USCIRF raises concerns about CAB, seeks sanctions against Amit Shah
After the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) was passed in...
Two-Nation theory, CAB and the idea of India – message of brotherhood by Sardar Patel
Listen to this message of brotherhood and what being...
Citizenship Amendment Bill passes, but what does this mean?
The Citizenship Amendment Bill was introduced in the Lok Sabha on December 9 and passed at midnight after a twelve-hour debate. Our team went through the text of the bill with a fine-tooth comb and here’s what we found.
Shiv Sena slams CAB, accuses BJP of “invisible partition”
sabrang -
In its refreshing new secular avatar, possibly brought about by pressure from alliance partners in Maharashtra, the Shiv Sena on Monday joined a chorus of voices demanding answers to pertinent questions related to the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill (CAB).
Trending
Related VIDEOS
ALL STORIES
ALL STORIES
Rights
The cost of a wrongful deportation
The return of four West Bengal residents after Supreme Court intervention highlights the constitutional consequences of deporting individuals before verifying their citizenship
Gender and Sexuality
Women: Nation builders, missing from the nation’s books
An exploration of the path-breaking verdict delivered by the SC declaring “housewives as nation-builders”[1]. The author, an academic explores, academically and historically, how societies and nations have only imagined economies and valued production through narrow prisms while feminist scholars have spent decades challenging this hierarchy; the real challenge that the June 11 judgement throws is whether we are prepared for a substantive re-set and re-construct
Rule of Law
Promising Principles Poor Outcomes: What the judicial record on security force accountability actually shows
The Supreme Court has said that AFSPA is not a license to kill, sovereign immunity does not protect the State from liability for custodial death, and rape by a soldier requires no special court. At the same time, the number of armed forces personnel convicted by an ordinary civilian criminal court for rape in a conflict area is, on the available record, low.
World
The arbitrary detention of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya: A call for justice
The appeal by the Palestinian Embassy in New Delhi has called on all Indians to support and join the call for the immediate and unconditional release of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya; advocating for the protection of Palestinian healthcare workers, hospitals, ambulances, and medical facilities in accordance with international humanitarian law.
Labour
Though sewer deaths have crossed the 100 mark this year, government is silent: SKA
With three deaths on the same day in two different incidents in Madhya Pradesh, 101 people have died so far in sewers and septic tanks across the country in 188 days this year, according the data compiled by Safai Karamchari Andolan (SKA). NCR Delhi alone accounts for 12 deaths.
India
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.
India
Rajasthan: From Giral to Islampur, how locals are contesting development and historical identity
The author traces similarities of people’s mobilisations in Giral, Barmer and Islampur, Jhunjunu wherein both involve local communities asserting agency against decisions made elsewhere. In Giral, villagers have been robustly protesting the “benefits from mineral extraction in the name of development,” while in Islampur, residents have been questioning the communal (read majoriatrian moves to re-name and thereby, re-define a region’s identity