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10 December 2019 #CAB #MuslimExclusionBill The NDA has been the creator of much of confusions in the Act with Amendments of 2003 and 2015 and now this proposed Amendment. Largely Indian citizenship is ‘based on bloodlines’ unlike other countries which are based on ‘residency and place of birth’, and for a country where documentation is Read more

#CAB The debate is raging over a Citizenship Amendment Bill that was introduced into the Lok Sabha by 293 votes, which means that it carried the numbers going forward for it to be passed in normal voting. Is this being brought as a Constitutional Amendment Bill? Is this targeting the minority communities, or is this Read more

6 December 2019 Humour is the best form of offence and defence, there is nothing like a self deprecatory remark or an admission of ignorance to deflate a heated argument or  tight situation of verbal duels! Parliamentary exchanges are recorded as some of the best sources of humour, where a healthy repartee and a pun Read more

5 December 2019 #CAB #NewIndia ‘We or Our Nationhood Defined’ is the title of a book written by RSS founder Golwalkar and it has a very simple construct that every state adheres to a religious affiliation and for this Indian subcontinental mass that is South Asia the predominance of Hinduism cannot be denied. So as Read more

3 December 2019 #NewIndia #HamaraBajaj We all quite know that there is hardly any dignity left in public life. Still there are those moments when one takes a way of what is happening in India, from cues emerging from the ranks of those who are invested in public life. First off is Ms Mahua Moitra Read more

29 November 2019 #NRCNationwide Is the national NRC simply going to reopen the question for Inspector Salim of blockbuster Sarfarosh, the wound of being told that this land is not his home? https://www.telegraphindia.com/entertainment/it-is-difficult-to-imagine-a-sarfarosh-2-in-2019/cid/1688696 https://youtu.be/ob4XKar6Brk I would not have waded into this ongoing ‘hip hop’ acrobatic and trying to land on feet and finding one’s head Read more