Tag: CAA
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Unconditional Citizenship Denied: CAR, 2024 Sets a Dangerous Precedent
he Citizenship Amendment Rules, 2024 (CAR, 2024) notified by the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India on March 11, 2024 is, simultaneously, a subversion of the secular basis of India’s citizenship law for the sake of communal, majoritarian vote-bank politics as well as a ploy to deceive lakhs of Bengali Hindu refugees from Bangladesh…
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A week ahead of polls, neither election nor fear of Covid is on the minds of the Matua community
Thakurnagar: When Prime Minister Narendra Modi was invited by the Bangladesh government to attend its 50th Foundation Day function on March 26, the Matua community was clearly on the mind of the PM. He made it a point to visit the Orakandi city where the shrine of Harichand Thakur, a revered figure of the community,…
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From Silicon Valley County to Boston resolution and protest against CAA and farm bills
Kolkata: December 11, was the first anniversary of the passing of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) by the Indian parliament. While many cities of India, including Kolkata, witnessed protest against the controversial bill, protests and resolutions took place even in the United States against CAA and farm bills, and thousands of farmers took to the…
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On the first anniversary of CAA, anti-protest resumes in Kolkata, supports farmers movement
Kolkata: Kolkata resumes anti-CAA protest on the first anniversary of the divisive and anti-Muslim citizenship law by the Narendra Modi government. Surviving the prolonged lockdown that barred public assembly after the Covid pandemic, the protesters’ morale has visibly recieved a boost in the wake of the ongoing farmers’ agitation at Delhi border against pro-corporate farm…
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Citizenship issue is more life threatening than coronavirus, Kolkata protesters to continue fight against CAA
Kolkata: The number of women participants at the Park Circus Maidan on Sunday was much stronger than what it had witnessed during the weekdays. A similar turnover was witnessed at Shireen Bagh (Raja Bazar Tram Depot), Nawab Ali Park and other sit-in protest sites in Kolkata, amid the Coronavirus (COVID-19) scare. The protesters, present at…
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Bengal activists begin hunger strike, don’t buy Shah’s claim made in the parliament
Kolkata: At the time when Home Minister Amit Shah, was giving a speech on the doubts raised by fellow Parliamentarians at the Rajya Sabha, the anti-Nation Register for Citizenship (NRC), National Population Register (NPR) and Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) protesters on road was not buying his claims and infact in Kolkata, the agitation has intensified.…
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Mamata uses police and party to deny space to anti-CAA rivals and civil society
engal’s big sis (Didi) Mamata Banerjee was at the receiving end of police brutalities as I had witnessed it closely as a journalist covering her at many places during her Opposition years. I still recall her writhing in pain at a private hospital with bandaged head and limbs or the pandemonium when she was being…
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Newsletter from Northeast: Curfew withdrawn in Shillong, tension lingers
Shillong: Communal clashes are not unknown to Shillong, the state capital of Meghalaya and the political hub of the north-east India during the Raj. Recent clashes and sporadic violence is another chapter in otherwise elegant history of the Queen of the eastern hills. For old timers here, it is reliving the horror and tension again…
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आदिवासी समाज के आंखों का खुलना ज़रूरी है
ह दो संस्कृतियों की लंबी लड़ाई है। एक संस्कृति जो पूरे इतिहास में मानवता के खिला़फ रही है, प्रकृति के खिला़फ रही है, आदिवासियों का संघर्ष उसी संस्कृति से है। मौजूदा CAA-NRC-NPR के संघर्ष के दौरान भी संस्कृतियों का यह संघर्ष काम कर रहा है। इस दौरान देखना चाहिए कि आदमी जब कपड़ों से ही…
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Delhi mayhem pointed to the absence of ideo-political initiatives for unity among Hindu and Muslim toilers
Community Control-freak Palestinian thinker Edward Said, the author of the seminal book, Orientalism has exposed the European colonial-era construct of the Orient or the East, the great historical Other of the West by flattening the former’s internal diversity and dynamism across time and space. He has also warned against the hegemony of social-political authorities in…