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A few weeks ago, the Indian government formally notified the rules implementing the controversial 2019 Citizenship Amendment Act, or CAA. The law provides persecuted religious minorities hailing from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Pakistan an expedited pathway to Indian citizenship, provided they belong to the Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jain, Parsi, or Sikh communities. Notably, the law does not provide such a pathway to those who belong to the Muslim faith.The notification of the CAA rules—on the eve of India's 2024 general election—has kicked off a fresh debate over the law, its implementing provisions, and the resulting implications for the future of secularism in India.To discuss all of this and more, Milan is joined on the show this week by legal scholar M. Mohsin Alam Bhat. Mohsin is a Lecturer in Law at Queen Mary University of London, where he specializes in constitutional law and human rights. Mohsin has written extensively about law and citizenship in India.Milan and Mohsin discuss the origins of the CAA, its constitutionality, and the fine print of the CAA rules. Plus, the two discuss the situation in Assam, that state's National Register of Citizens (NRC), and the prospects of an all-India NRC exercise.Episode notes:1. “What's Happening to India's Rohingya Refugees? (with Priyali Sur and Daniel Sullivan),” Grand Tamasha, May 24, 2023.2. Mohsin Alam Bhat and Aashish Yadav, “CAA will not help persecuted Hindus, Sikhs from neighbouring countries,” Indian Express, March 19, 2024.3. “The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019,” PRS Legislative Research.4. Madhav Khosla and Milan Vaishnav, “The Three Faces of the Indian State,” Journal of Democracy 32, no. 1 (2021): 111-125.5. Mohsin Alam Bhat, “The Constitutional Case Against the Citizenship Amendment Bill,” Economic and Political Weekly 54, no.3 (2019): 12-14.6. Mohsin Alam Bhat, “‘The Irregular' and the Unmaking of Minority Citizenship: The Rules of Law in Majoritarian India,” Queen Mary Law Research Paper No. 395/2022.7. Niraja Gopal Jayal, “Faith-based Citizenship,” The India Forum, October 31, 2019. 

In today's news episode, Claire will discuss the growing unrest in India over the recent enactment of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) by President Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party just weeks before elections. With the CAA and the possibility of enacting the National Register of Citizens (NRC), many claim that Muslim immigrants living in India will now be turned into refugees, with more barriers for reentry into the country. Sources: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/12/why-is-indias-citizenship-amendment-act-so-controversial https://theintercept.com/2020/01/30/india-citizenship-act-caa-nrc-assam/ https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/modi-government-announces-citizenship-amendment-act-rules-4-years-after-bill-was-passed/article67939010.ece Script: Hello everyone, I'm Claire Mattes and you're listening to Seeking Refuge News. Protests have erupted in India after the Indian Government announced on Monday that the Citizenship Amendment Act, or CAA, which was passed in 2019 but not not enforced, will now be brought into effect. The CAA will come into force on the eve of elections, and is India's first religion-based citizenship test, discriminating against Muslims and other refugees. This act has brought about critique from many student groups throughout the country, as well as human rights groups and state government leaders. So, why is this act so controversial? According to Prime Minister Narendra Modi of the Bharatiya Janata party, the goal of the CAA is to help the persecuted. An article from the intercept states, “that he has framed the CAA as a noble effort to welcome Hindus who are oppressed in neighboring Muslim-majority countries.” However, the intricacies of the law make it clear that it will prevent many Muslim refugees from entering India. Before the law was passed, all foreign nationals must spend 11 years in India before gaining citizenship eligibility. Now, the CAA will expedite this process to only 5 years for certain groups fleeing persecution who arrived before December 31, 2014. These groups are Hindus, Buddhists, Jains, Christians, Parsis, and Sikhs seeking asylum from Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. According to Aljazeera, Muslim asylum seekers will still need to wait 11 years, and, unlike other religious groups, will be required to have valid documentation to justify their presence. This means that once they reapply for citizenship through the online portal provided by the government, they will become refugees, and in order to reenter, many will need the proper documentation, which is unlikely that they will have.  Additionally, the passage of the National Register of Citizens, which is designed to deport people without the proper papers, is leaving very few options for Muslim asylum seekers. Although the law is only in effect in the northeast state of Assam, many fear it will become a nationwide policy. With these two policies combined, the country would be able to deport all “illegal” immigrants, and only allow reentry to Hindus, Sikhs, Parsis, Buddhists, Jains, and Christians, according to Aljazeera.  Modi has denied any wrongdoing, but many critics have noted the previous anti-Muslim actions this year, such as the move to strip Kashmire of autonomy back in August of 2023, and a long history of violence and breaches of international law in the six detention centers located in Assam, where majority Muslim asylum seekers are being held, says the Intercept. The Hindu writes that West Bengal Chief Minister says the CAA would take away rights and lead people to detention camps, later stating, “Those who are being asked to apply, the moment they apply, from becoming citizens they will become illegal refugees. What will happen to your properties, your jobs and the studies of your children? Everything will be declared illegal.”  These actions have drawn criticism from all over the country, with hundreds of thousands of protestors, majority being students. However, the intercept noted that some students were protesting against the snti-Muslim policies, while other were protesting the expedited process for any group of immigrants. According to Aljazeer, Many are regarding the actions of the BJP as unconstitutional, citing article 14 of the constitution. The State shall not deny to any person equality before the law or the equal protection of the laws within the territory of India. Human Rights Watch has also declared this discriminatory against Muslims. We will be sure to keep you updated on the latest news regarding refugees worldwide. Thank you for listening, and we'll see you again on Seeking Refuge News. Liked this episode? Let us know! Subscribe and leave us a review below! 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Sharad Pawar on Wednesday dissolved all the national-level departments, Veteran politician Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka's eighth president, and Himanta Biswa Sarma said application for inclusion in the National Register of Citizens (NRC) is not enough to prove citizenship and other top news in bulletin,

For the past two years, USCIRF has recommended that India be designated a Country of Particular of Concern (CPC) by the State Department due the government's promotion of Hindu nationalist policies resulting in systematic, ongoing, and egregious violations of religious freedom. One such policy is the 2019 passage of the discriminatory Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA)—a fast track to citizenship for non-Muslim migrants from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Pakistan residing in India—which led to nationwide protests against the CAA in early 2020 and spurred state and nonstate violence, largely targeting Muslims. Today, USCIRF Chair Nadine Maenza joins us to discuss a report on India that will be issued in the coming weeks by the Political Conflict, Gender and People's Rights Initiative, Center for Race and Gender, at the University of California, Berkeley. The report, called “BREAKING WORLDS: Religion, Law and Citizenship in Majoritarian India: The Story of Assam,” is authored by a team of researchers led by Dr. Angana Chatterji. The report is a case study of the Indian government's attempt to alter the basis of Indian citizenship through the pilot implementation of the CAA and accompanying National Register of Citizens (NRC) in the northeastern state of Assam. Read more of USCIRF's reporting on India here.

In this insightful episode of the Blood Brothers Podcast, Dilly Hussain catches up with the prominent Muslim historian Adnan Rashid. #BloodBrothersPodcast​ #AdnanRashid​ #MughalEmpire​ Adnan shares his thoughts on the recent assassination of top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani by the U.S. and its implications for the region. He also discusses the current state of BJP-led India, with the rise of institutional Islamophobia and the introduction of various anti-Muslim laws like the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and National Register of Citizens (NRC). Topics of discussion also include the formation of Pakistan, India's ongoing occupation of Kashmir, the history of the Subcontinent under Mughal rule, and how Islamic the Mughal Empire was in comparison to the Ottoman Empire.

Watch the video version of this conversation: https://www.patreon.com/posts/hindu-rebuttal-37136801  Jarin Jove is a self-described “Hindu atheist” who is disillusioned by what he feels is a dismissive approach to Hindus by ex-Muslim atheists. He has written a five-part blog post criticizing Ex-Muslims of North America as well as the hosts of this podcast. While not representative of all Hindus, Jarin is sympathetic to India's ruling BJP party and its Prime Minister Narendra Modi's policy. We talked about a range of issues, including his support for the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and National Register of Citizens (NRC) — he proposed that opposing the CAA was anti-Hindu bigotry. Ali vehemently disagreed. This got heated and interesting. Check it out.

The West Bengal elections are due in 2021. Mamata Banerjee and her Trinamool Congress have been in power for about a decade and won the last election convincingly with nearly 45% of the vote share. In that same election, the Left parties led by CPI (M), which ruled the State for nearly 3 decades with Jyoti Basu and Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, followed with about 20%. The BJP, which hasn't been historically strong in the State has made tremendous progress and even won 40% of the vote share and 18 seats from Bengal in the 2019 general elections. Aside, we have the Indian National Congress, which is another key player in the mix. Plenty of factors in play right now. Aside from the coronavirus pandemic the state also recently experienced the devastation of Cyclone Amphan. There is also the backdrop of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and The National Register of Citizens (NRC). To discuss what will be an interesting battle for power we have political strategy experts and commentators Abhishek Paul, Rohit Jayaraman, and Rangesh Sridhar joining us on this episode of the Bharatvaarta podcast. Listen in as we deep dive into what strategies the various parties will adopt and how things might pan out in the run up to the Elections. This podcast is available on all popular platforms Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Pocketcasts, and Breaker. If you like this episode, do subscribe and share!

The West Bengal elections are due in 2021. Mamata Banerjee and her Trinamool Congress have been in power for about a decade and won the last election convincingly with nearly 45% of the vote share. In that same election, the Left parties led by CPI (M), which ruled the State for nearly 3 decades with Jyoti Basu and Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, followed with about 20%. The BJP, which hasn't been historically strong in the State has made tremendous progress and even won 40% of the vote share and 18 seats from Bengal in the 2019 general elections. Aside, we have the Indian National Congress, which is another key player in the mix. Plenty of factors in play right now. Aside from the coronavirus pandemic the state also recently experienced the devastation of Cyclone Amphan. There is also the backdrop of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and The National Register of Citizens (NRC). To discuss what will be an interesting battle for power we have political strategy experts and commentators Abhishek Paul, Rohit Jayaraman, and Rangesh Sridhar joining us on this episode of the Bharatvaarta podcast. Listen in as we deep dive into what strategies the various parties will adopt and how things might pan out in the run up to the Elections. This podcast is available on all popular platforms Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Pocketcasts, and Breaker. If you like this episode, do subscribe and share!

In the 32nd episode of ThoughtSpace, Yamini Aiyar (President and Chief Executive, CPR) speaks to Sanjoy Hazarika (Director, Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative and Honorary Research Professor, CPR) about the implications of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) exercise in Assam. The passage of the CAA was met by a fierce reaction in the northeastern part of the country, particularly in Assam. Assam has also witnessed the National Register of Citizens or the NRC process. What were the reasons behind this process and how did it unfold? Why are the people of Assam protesting against the CAA and are these protests different from that in the rest of India? Are the CAA and NRC linked in any way? MORE RESEARCH ON THE CAA BY CPR SCHOLARS: 1. Unpacking the Citizenship Amendment Act (https://cprindia.org/news/8348). 2. How Democratic Processes Damage Citizenship Rights: The Implications of CAA-NRC (https://cprindia.org/news/8339). 3. Podcast: Citizenship Amendment Act- Protests, Democracy & Politics: Lessons from Latin America (https://cprindia.org/news/8394).

In the 32nd episode of ThoughtSpace, Yamini Aiyar (President and Chief Executive, CPR) speaks to Sanjoy Hazarika (Director, Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative and Honorary Research Professor, CPR) about the implications of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) exercise in Assam. The passage of the CAA was met by a fierce reaction in the northeastern part of the country, particularly in Assam. Assam has also witnessed the National Register of Citizens or the NRC process. What were the reasons behind this process and how did it unfold? Why are the people of Assam protesting against the CAA and are these protests different from that in the rest of India? Are the CAA and NRC linked in any way? MORE RESEARCH ON THE CAA BY CPR SCHOLARS: Unpacking the Citizenship Amendment Act (https://cprindia.org/news/8348). How Democratic Processes Damage Citizenship Rights: The Implications of CAA-NRC (https://cprindia.org/news/8339). Podcast: Citizenship Amendment Act- Protests, Democracy & Politics: Lessons from Latin America (https://cprindia.org/news/8394).

In this insightful episode of the Blood Brothers Podcast, Dilly Hussain catches up with the prominent Muslim historian Adnan Rashid. #BloodBrothersPodcast #AdnanRashid #MughalEmpire Adnan shares his thoughts on the recent assassination of top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani by the U.S. and its implications for the region. He also discusses the current state of BJP-led India, with the rise of institutional Islamophobia and the introduction of various anti-Muslim laws like the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and National Register of Citizens (NRC). Topics of discussion also include the formation of Pakistan, India's ongoing occupation of Kashmir, the history of the Subcontinent under Mughal rule, and how Islamic the Mughal Empire was in comparison to the Ottoman Empire.

In the recent protests in UP against the Citizenship Amendment Act(CAA) and the National Register of Citizens(NRC), the government has tried various ways to snub the voices of protestors. One such is the voice of Sandeep Pandey, magsaysay award winner and a social activist who was put under house arrest thrice under the pretext of preventive custody without any papers.  In this episode of The Suno India Show,  we reached out to him to understand the current situation in Uttar Pradesh and why he compares it with the Freedom Struggle. For more stories like this, you can listen to www.sunoindia.in. Also follow us on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. See sunoindia.in/privacy-policy for privacy information.

The Union Cabinet has cleared the way for the updation of the National Population Register from April next year. Though the government was quick to state that the NPR is not related to the National Register of Citizens (NRC) there are still questions over the process through which the former will be compiled and the information that will be sought. Could the NPR then, be a precursor to a national NRC. This podcast looks at the link between the Census, NPR, NRC and finally the Citizenship Amendment Bill. Guest: K Venkataramanan, Associate Editor, The Hindu

The National Population Register was designed to be maintained by Registrar General of India and was subsequently linked to Census 2011 and carried out along with it by the Register General of India. The register was further updated in 2015, when more data was collected. The National Population Register data was used for other activities like Socio-Economic Caste Census, Aadhaar Voter id linking in the past until the Aadhaar Act of 2016 was framed. The current version of National Population Register along with census 2021 will be carried using a mobile application. National Population Register is the mother database of National Register of Citizens (NRC). To talk about these registers, Suno India editor Padma Priya talks to Cyber Democracy host Srinivas Kodali. For more stories like this, you can listen to www.sunoindia.in. Also follow us on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. See sunoindia.in/privacy-policy for privacy information.

The National Population Register was designed to be maintained by Registrar General of India and was subsequently linked to Census 2011 and carried out along with it by the Register General of India. The register was further updated in 2015, when more data was collected. The National Population Register data was used for other activities like Socio-Economic Caste Census, Aadhaar Voter id linking in the past until the Aadhaar Act of 2016 was framed. The current version of National Population Register along with census 2021 will be carried using a mobile application. National Population Register is the mother database of National Register of Citizens (NRC). To talk about these registers, Suno India editor Padma Priya talks to Cyber Democracy host Srinivas Kodali.

In this "Reflections" episode,Teri and Michael reflect back on episodes on culture and gender roles:  Episode 78: Taté Walker on using storytelling and art to create social change around Indigenous rights, Episode 79: Bimla Vishwapremi, a feminist activist, on women's rights in India, and Episode 81: #SurvivorStories Series with Aneri Shah–on gender roles and how her Indian-American identity impacted her #MeToo experience. During my conversation with Michael, Michael referred to Taté as "she" instead of "they" as is Taté's preferred pronoun.  I didn't notice this until the editing process and apologize to Taté for not correcting Michael. We also touched upon the following resources in our conversation: The high rates of domestic abuse within the law enforcement profession India's recently introduced "Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA)" and its connection to the National Registry of Citizens (NRC), and what it means for Muslims The Dirty John Netflix show Our reference to how society, culture, and family create status or "shame" in survivors, as evidenced in Episode 20: #SurvivorStories Series with Rosaura Torres Thomas, on abuse when your partner is a cop Rachel Louise Snyder's book, No Visible Bruises, makes the top 10 NYT list of best books of 2019 --- Thanks for tuning in to the en(gender)ed podcast! Be sure to check out our en(gender)ed site and follow our blog on Medium. Consider donating because your support is what makes this work sustainable. Please also connect with us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. Don't forget to subscribe to the show!    

In this episode I sit down with writer and researcher, Sharik Laliwaya and have a conversation on the National Register of Citizens (NRC), Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) and about why it is a threat to the democracy and secularism of India. 

On Tuesday, the Union Cabinet approved over Rs 3,900 crore for a National Population Register or NPR. This decision comes at a time when people across the country have been protesting against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the proposed all-India National Register of Citizens (NRC). The NPR is being seen as the first step to the NRC, even as the government tries to delink the two. In this episode, Deeptiman Tiwary explains what exactly is the NPR, how it is linked to the NRC and the concerns that it raises.

- Right wing politics in which immigrants and minorities are being marginalized is sweeping across Europe as well as India. - Modi’s BJP government passed the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) which will grant citizenship to six religious minorities from Pakistan, Afghanistan or Bangladesh. The communities who will be given this citizenship from these countries are Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi and Christian. - The bill is exclusionary and violates the secular ethos of the Indian constitution. Faith cannot be made a condition of citizenship - Opponents says that there are minorities among the Muslims themselves who are persecuted: Ahmadis or Shi‘as or Hazaras in Pakistan. If BJP government was really concerned about persecuted minorities in the neighbouring countries, it should have opened the door for all in that neighbourhood irrespective of their faith. - The BJP government also tried to introduce the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in north-east state of Assam which has many Bengali refugees. - Locally, we need to be vigilant also. Harper’s Tory government passed Bill C-24 which gave the government the right to strip (even Canadian born individuals) who had dual citizenship of their Canadian passports if they were convicted of crimes of terrorism, treason or espionage against Canada. - Later the Liberal government repealed parts of Bill C-24 related to terrorism-related crimes, ensuring that they can keep their Canadian passport. Treat them as Canadian and if they are guilty, then punish them according to Canadian laws without deporting them to their parents’ homeland! - Some Hindu fundamentals propagate the myth that the Muslims who are originally Indians, their ancestors were converted by the Muslim rulers by force. This is the same tune which was played by the European missionaries and scholars about the spread of Islam. - Muslims ruled India for about 800 years, but there never was a Muslim majority in that country. The numbers themselves show that force was not part of the spread of Islam in that region. Youtube: https://youtu.be/jQq4GMCK9zM MP3: https://f001.backblazeb2.com/file/Jaffari/Fridays/FridayKhutba_Rizvi_2019-12-20_12-49-17.mp3 Friday Juma Khutba Recited By: Maulana Syed Muhammad Rizvi Date: December 20th, 2019 www.youtube.com/islamicentre https://anchor.fm/islamicentre www.facebook.com/IslamiCentre.org www.islamicentre.org www.facebook.com/sayyidmrizvi www.instagram.com/sayyidmrizvi www.twitter.com/sayyidmrizvi

We first speak to Rory Mills, one of the coordinators of the regenerative culture branch at Extinction Rebellion Vancouver about plans to hunger strike if UBC does not commit to divesting. We then have a conversation with Nandita Ratan, an Instagram artist whose political art, 'India is Burning', went viral recently. She discusses her transition towards more political art and recent protests in India with the National Register of Citizens (NRC) and the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). Checkout here art on https://www.instagram.com/nanditaratan/. We also discuss the city budget, and the fallout from the departure of car2go.

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The National Register Of Citizens (NRC) was first made in 1951 to tackle the issue of illegal immigration from Bangladesh to Assam. Its updated list in 2019 has proved to be controversial, with nearly 19 lakh people being left out in the final list, including Bengali Hindus and Assamese people. Despite its flaws and high costs Home Minister, Amit Shah, now wants a NRC to be prepared for the entire country to identify all illegal immigrants in India.

In this episode of Newslaundry Hafta, The Caravan’s Staff Writer Praveen Donthi and Independent Journalist Makepeace Sitlhou join host, Abhinandan Sekhri, Newslaundry’s Managing Editor, Raman Kirpal and Correspondent, Gaurav Sarkar.Abhinandan begins the podcast with the National Register of Citizens (NRC). He asks if NRC is “some sort of a political masterstroke”. Makepeace, who covers stories from Northeast India and has been covering NRC, draws out the details of the situation. She says the enactment of NRC and the issues of foreigners has been a “long-burning issue.” Praveen talks about the obsession with the number 50 lakh concerning the register.The panel moves on to talk about recent developments in Kashmir. They discuss the Kashmir Press Club’s denouncement of the curb on journalists in the valley, the communication clampdown and a piece by Indian Express that questioned the methods of proceedings concerning the revocation of Article 370. Abhinandan talks about the international coverage of the issue and moves on to question Praveen on how the Kashmiris are taking the decision. He asks, “Are there people in Kashmir who are okay with this?” Praveen examines the points of views of separatists and mainstream politicians. He says “The mainstream politicians have never had a history of agitating against Indian state.” Raman points to the radicalization of the Kashmiri youth saying, “There were internal reports claiming that seventy percent of Kashmiri youth has been radicalized in the past four-five years.”Later, Gaurav Sarkar, who has been covering the Chidambaram case joins the conversation. Abhinandan asks him to spill the beans on the informal happenings in the court that did not make into the report. Gaurav narrates a funny incident from the proceedings. He also talks about the specificities of the cases on Chidambaram and his arrest.Abhinandan also talked about Ravish Kumar’s acceptance speech for the Ramon Magsaysay Award, the rise of fake news and the choice and plight of young journalists.For this and more, listen in! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Milan speaks with Niha Masih of the Washington Post about the ongoing political drama surrounding the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam. Nearly 33 million residents of Assam applied to have their names included on the register, which was intended to distinguish between who was a legitimate resident of the state of the Assam and who was an illegal migrant from Bangladesh. When the list finally came out in late August, nearly 2 million people discovered that their names were left off the list--calling their citizenship status into question. Niha recently spent time on the ground in Assam and she and Milan discuss the history of the NRC process, its contested implementation, and the political color it has taken on in recent years. The two also debate the political implications of the registry for the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the fate of the millions whose names did not appear on the revised list.

NL Hafta has gone behind the paywall, but we love our listeners. So here's a little sneak peek into the complete episode. In this episode of Newslaundry Hafta, The Caravan’s Staff Writer Praveen Donthi and Independent Journalist Makepeace Sitlhou join host, Abhinandan Sekhri, Newslaundry’s Managing Editor, Raman Kirpal and Correspondent, Gaurav Sarkar.The podcast begins a discussion on the National Register of Citizens (NRC). Abhinandan wonders if NRC is “some sort of a political masterstroke”. Makepeace, who covers stories from Northeast India and has been covering NRC, draws out the details of the situation. The panel moves on to talk about recent developments in Kashmir, including reports of human rights violations, with inputs from The Caravan’s Praveen Dhonty. Later, Gaurav Sarkar, who has been covering the Chidambaram case, joins the conversation. Abhinandan asks him to spill the beans on the informal happenings in the court that did not make into his report. Abhinandan also talked about Ravish Kumar’s acceptance speech for the Ramon Magsaysay Award, the rise of fake news and the choice and plight of young journalists.Listen to the full Hafta here: https://www.newslaundry.com/2019/09/07/hafta-240-nrc-kashmir-chidambaram-and-more See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The National Registry of Citizens (NRC) has been in the national news recently. So in this episode, we take a step back to understand the causes and dynamics of insider-outsider tensions in North-East India. Joining us is author and journalist Samrat, who has co-edited a book with Preeti Gill on this topic, titled Insider-Outsider: Belonging and Unbelonging in North-East India. Puliyabaazi is on these platforms: Twitter: https://twitter.com/puliyabaazi Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/puliyabaazi Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/puliyabaazi/ Subscribe & listen to the podcast on iTunes, Google Podcasts, Castbox, AudioBoom, YouTube or any other podcast app.

The clock is ticking for over four million people in Assam. On Saturday, the government will release the final National Register of Citizens (NRC) list, over a year after the first list was declared. This list will determine whether a person residing in Assam is an Indian or a foreigner. The announcement of the final NRC list is likely to be the biggest development in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's second term, after the Centre's move to scrap special status from Jammu and Kashmir. What will happen to those whose names do not appear in the list? Those excluded from the final NRC will get a window of 10 months to prove their citizenship. Each person excluded will have a maximum of 120 days or four months from the date of publication of the final NRC to present his or her case at a Foreigners’ Tribunal, which has to dispose of the case within six months. If they fail to prove their identity, they will be sent to detention camps.

In this episode, first, Pramod and Chandu give a short primer on the history of the Assam colonial state and the roots of the language conflict. Then (from 24 min onward), they along with Jasmine interview Gautam Bhatia, Indian constitutional lawyer about the NRC, and discuss the role of the Indian judiciary. Music: Haradhon Rongmon, a song which was composed by Hemango Biswas and Bhupen Hazarika to appeal for peace in the 60s in a violence torn Assam

This week on Reporters Without Orders, Cherry Agarwal sits down with Newslaundry correspondent Ayush Tiwari, Desk Writer Gaurav Sarkar, and News Editor (Jammu & Kashmir and the Northeast) of Scroll.in Ipsita Chakravarty.The discussion kicks off with the panel talking about a petition in the Bombay High Court that sought a ban on the phrase "Alibaug se aaya hai kya". They also talk about the National Register of Citizens (NRC), and why it is contentious. Speaking of the media's coverage, Gaurav says, “Legacy media or the mainstream media didn't seem to give the issue that much importance but independent media like The Wire, The Quint, Scroll.in did a really good job.” Ipsita adds: “The only way one can really gaze what is going on is through reporting, by going to Assam, speaking to as many people as possible.”The panel discusses the Right To Information (Amendment) Bill, 2019. Gaurav says, “It's a move to clamp down on what the government wants you to know and what they particularly do not want you to know.”For this and more, listen up! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This episode of Reporters Without Orders has our in-house reporter Amit Bhardwaj joining our host Cherry Agrawal, along with special guests Vishakha Saxena from Asia Times and Arunabh Saikia from Scroll.in.The discussion kicks off with Cherry asking the participants to comment on the Supreme Court's decision to extend the deadline to publish the National Register of Citizens (NRC) to July 30th. Arunabh comments on how the government is planning to establish the number of citizens in Assam and how it will affect them. “It's a complicated process," he says, which necessitates one to “establish their connection to someone who was there before 1971...this could be anything from your father or grandfather's name on a voter list before 1971.”Speaking about the verification processes, Arunabh explains that the process is long, as different states need to send in their data in the case of migrants. “It's clear to everyone in the state that this could be horrific…because currently illegal migrants are being held in detention camps.” Arunabh remarks that it is a “bleak future ahead”.Citing a report by The Hindu on the Citizen Amendment Bill, Cherry asks if this Bill is the method by which the “government is trying to change the definition of illegal migrants”. She also asks about the possible impact of the Bill, if passed, on the NRC list.Arunabh responds, “They are kind of changing who a foreigner is in India. If the Bill is enforced, then the NRC process becomes largely redundant…what it does is, it makes six years of a gigantic bureaucratic process largely redundant.” He also remarks that it is “essentially an anti-Muslim Bill.”The panel also discusses the local and national media's coverage of the NRC.While Arunabh feels that the quantity of coverage was sufficient, he says that “the coverage could have been better” in terms of the quality. According to him, the issue of illegal migrants in Assam is an “immensely complex one. There are multiple academic interpretations." He adds, "It is definitely xenophobic to a certain extent, but there was also an element of class struggle."Amit joins in. He asks Arunabh if there is a tendency to cover bizarre comments made by leaders instead of covering issues of governance and the “morally corrupt” appointment of officials, citing the Tripura governor's recommendation of a BJP member to be appointed to the government.Arunabh agrees, he adds that there is much more to be covered in Tripura other than Biplab's statements. Perhaps its harder to find these stories as “covering corruption requires the reporter to be underground, go through paperwork…it requires real digging which a lot of us find hard to do”, he adds.Now over to Vishakha, who feels that the June 26 Thomson Reuters survey which found that India was the most dangerous country for women was “quite under-reported and the reaction to it was also quite conflicting". Cherry disagrees, pointing to prime-time debates about the survey on news channels such as NewsX and CNN-News18.While there can be some contention about the methodology, because of the small sample size of 550 experts, the report should rather have been used as a trigger for a larger debate, Cherry says.“We don't need any Thomson Reuters report or any UN report to realise what is happening in our country," comments Amit.Vishakha, Amit, and Arunabh also weigh in on gender equality in the newsroom. Then there are Amit's remarks about PM Modi's recent goof-up in his speech in Maghar which was under-reported. There's more, listen up!#Media #Assam #NationalRegisterofCitizens #Modi #WomenInNewsrooms See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On this episode of Reporters Without Orders, the discussion kicks off with the issue of sale of swords and blades online, as reported by The Indian Express. Rohin says, “If we study the Arms Act (1959) and Arms Rules (2016), all non-fire arms that are over 9 inches in length and more than 2 inches in width require a license for both sale and purchase.” Rohin has also done a story on the same. For his story, Rohin also talked to a seller based in Jalandhar and tried to place an order for 1500 swords. He asked the seller if the delivery could be stopped on the way? To his surprise, the seller told him that a written note from a politician could be a good antidote. “You just get a written note from a politician. When the politician has given permission, who are the police to stop?” the seller told Rohin.He also speaks about the representation of the farmers' protests in TV media. “They are showing pictures that show farmers throwing vegetables and milk. They are trying to show that the viewer isn't participating in the protests, but the farmers who are, are actually misbehaving, destroying the food supply.”Nidhi talks about the story of a woman who died of starvation as she did not have a ration card. This story was underplayed in the mainstream media, Nidhi says, adding, “In January this year, another woman died due to under nutritional exhaustion and the fact-finding team then said that she was denied the ration since October last year. This was because the Aadhaar-enabled machine in the local ration shop failed to authenticate her biometric.”The panel also discusses Nidhi's report on Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) vehicle mowing down a young man during clashes after the Friday prayers in Srinagar. Cherry asks her, “Was there a sense of rage or fear among the locals when things started going out of hand?” Nidhi replies, “It was frenzy!” She says, “To just watch a man getting crushed under a vehicle like that is not fun.”Amit speaks about the tension brewing in Shillong, Meghalaya. Referring to an article by Scroll.in, Amit says, “These details were very important and somehow the national media ‘failed to report it'...until a delegation was sent by Captain Amarinder Singh, the Chief Minister of Punjab.” He adds, “It also shows...how alarming the situation is on the ground.”Our Campus Politik editor Sumedha talks about Assam's National Register of Citizens (NRC). She says, “June 30th is the deadline for the National Register of Citizens. This is a news has only been covered in fragments over the months ever since the first list came in December.”She adds, “2.9 million women, who are trying to submit their documents so that they get themselves verified, are not able to do so.” She adds, “These women are also facing threat...and sexual harassment by local officials as well. There is a detailed investigation report that Al Jazeera covered. But I don't see a lot of mention of this in the Indian media at least.”Cherry says that the follow-up to Cobrapost sting has been very weak in reference to the legal notices the website has been receiving. She also adds that Sudarshan TV also got a legal notice from Delhi Minorities Commission for allegedly airing a report where they referred to some locals from North Delhi's Bawana area as 'Rohingyas' and 'Bangladeshis'.Cherry says, “I went online to check the report...It was slightly disturbing to find both the anchor and the reporter agreeing and implying that the high crime rates in the area was because of the area being dominated by Rohingya Muslims and Bangladeshis.” All this was without actual evidence being cited. “You're not giving any evidence! Have you done a population census!?” she asks.#Shillong violence #Kashmir #Violence in Bihar #Cobrapost See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On Tuesday, as over 18 crore Indians go to polls in over 2 lakh booths across 117 constituencies spread over 14 states and Union territories in phase 3 of Lok Sabha elections, the BJP has been running 600 ads on Facebook targeted at those voting today. This not only amounts to a direct violation of the mandatory 48-hour ‘silence period’according to section 126 of the Representation of the People Act, but also illustrates the toothless nature of the “Code of Ethics” that social media platforms like Facebook and the Election commission had announced on 20 March. The 600 active ads – all running as video GIFs – consist of a variety of election manifesto promises from the implementation of the National Register of Citizens (NRC), fighting terrorism, to increasing jobs, access to drinking water, and pipe gas connections among others. According to Facebook’s weekly political ads report, the BJP was the highest spender on election ads last week, having spent Rs 44 lakh between 14 and 20 April.

The National Register of Citizen is a list prepared by the government of India to separate illegal immigrants from legitimate citizens of Assam. According to officials, approximately 40 lakh people did not make it to the final list. The demand for updating the NRC in Assam is long-standing. Since the NDA brought citizenship amendment bill in 2016, the demand for the updated NRC started gaining ground once again and this time it is going more aggressively. One can check their names online nrcassam. nic.in, www.assam.mygov.in, www.assam.gov.in, www.homeandpolitical.assam.gov.in, www.draftnrcassam.com, www.nrcdrafts.com, www.draftnrc.com, www.assamnrcdraft.com, www.nrcassamhearing.in. or you can call 24*7 toll free number from Assam and 18003453762 to know more details in the NRC draft. Unfortunately there are still very little clarity from the state or central government about what will happen to the illegal immigrants. Will the government deport them or not? and also what will happen to those who have voter ID cards but not named in the NRC list. Anusha Bhattacharya gives more insights.

This episode of Reporters Without Orders has our in-house reporter Amit Bhardwaj joining our host Cherry Agrawal, along with special guests Vishakha Saxena from Asia Times and Arunabh Saikia from Scroll.in.The discussion kicks off with Cherry asking the participants to comment on the Supreme Court’s decision to extend the deadline to publish the National Register of Citizens (NRC) to July 30th. Arunabh comments on how the government is planning to establish the number of citizens in Assam and how it will affect them. “It’s a complicated process," he says, which necessitates one to “establish their connection to someone who was there before 1971...this could be anything from your father or grandfather’s name on a voter list before 1971.” Speaking about the verification processes, Arunabh explains that the process is long, as different states need to send in their data in the case of migrants. “It’s clear to everyone in the state that this could be horrific…because currently illegal migrants are being held in detention camps.” Arunabh remarks that it is a “bleak future ahead”.Citing a report by The Hindu on the Citizen Amendment Bill, Cherry asks if this Bill is the method by which the “government is trying to change the definition of illegal migrants”. She also asks about the possible impact of the Bill, if passed, on the NRC list.Arunabh responds, “They are kind of changing who a foreigner is in India. If the Bill is enforced, then the NRC process becomes largely redundant…what it does is, it makes six years of a gigantic bureaucratic process largely redundant.” He also remarks that it is “essentially an anti-Muslim Bill.”The panel also discusses the local and national media's coverage of the NRC.  While Arunabh feels that the quantity of coverage was sufficient, he says that “the coverage could have been better” in terms of the quality. According to him, the issue of illegal migrants in Assam is an “immensely complex one. There are multiple academic interpretations." He adds,  "It is definitely xenophobic to a certain extent, but there was also an element of class struggle."Amit joins in. He asks Arunabh if there is a tendency to cover bizarre comments made by leaders instead of covering issues of governance and the “morally corrupt” appointment of officials, citing the Tripura governor’s recommendation of a BJP member to be appointed to the government.Arunabh agrees, he adds that there is much more to be covered in Tripura other than Biplab’s statements. Perhaps its harder to find these stories as “covering corruption requires the reporter to be underground, go through paperwork…it requires real digging which a lot of us find hard to do”, he adds.Now over to Vishakha, who feels that the June 26 Thomson Reuters survey which found that India was the most dangerous country for women was “quite under-reported and the reaction to it was also quite conflicting". Cherry disagrees, pointing to prime-time debates about the survey on news channels such as NewsX and CNN-News18.While there can be some contention about the methodology, because of the small sample size of 550 experts, the report should rather have been used as a trigger for a larger debate, Cherry says.“We don’t need any Thomson Reuters report or any UN report to realise what is happening in our country," comments Amit.Vishakha, Amit, and Arunabh also weigh in on gender equality in the newsroom. Then there are Amit's remarks about PM Modi’s recent goof-up in his speech in Maghar which was under-reported. There's more, listen up! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On this episode of Reporters Without Orders, the discussion kicks off with the issue of sale of swords and blades online, as reported by The Indian Express. Rohin says, “If we study the Arms Act (1959) and Arms Rules (2016), all non-fire arms that are over 9 inches in length and more than 2 inches in width require a license for both sale and purchase.” Rohin has also done a story on the same. For his story, Rohin also talked to a seller based in Jalandhar and tried to place an order for 1500 swords. He asked the seller if the delivery could be stopped on the way? To his surprise, the seller told him that a written note from a politician could be a good antidote. “You just get a written note from a politician. When the politician has given permission, who are the police to stop?” the seller told Rohin.He also speaks about the representation of the farmers' protests in TV media. “They are showing pictures that show farmers throwing vegetables and milk. They are trying to show that the viewer isn’t participating in the protests, but the farmers who are, are actually misbehaving, destroying the food supply.”Nidhi talks about the story of a woman who died of starvation as she did not have a ration card. This story was underplayed in the mainstream media, Nidhi says, adding, “In January this year, another woman died due to under nutritional exhaustion and the fact-finding team then said that she was denied the ration since October last year. This was because the Aadhaar-enabled machine in the local ration shop failed to authenticate her biometric.”The panel also discusses Nidhi's report on Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) vehicle mowing down a young man during clashes after the Friday prayers in Srinagar. Cherry asks her, “Was there a sense of rage or fear among the locals when things started going out of hand?” Nidhi replies, “It was frenzy!” She says, “To just watch a man getting crushed under a vehicle like that is not fun.”Amit speaks about the tension brewing in Shillong, Meghalaya. Referring to an article by Scroll.in, Amit says, “These details were very important and somehow the national media ‘failed to report it’...until a delegation was sent by Captain Amarinder Singh, the Chief Minister of Punjab.” He adds, “It also shows...how alarming the situation is on the ground.”Our Campus Politik editor Sumedha talks about Assam's National Register of Citizens (NRC). She says, “June 30th is the deadline for the National Register of Citizens. This is a news has only been covered in fragments over the months ever since the first list came in December.”She adds, “2.9 million women, who are trying to submit their documents so that they get themselves verified, are not able to do so.” She adds, “These women are also facing threat...and sexual harassment by local officials as well. There is a detailed investigation report that Al Jazeera covered. But I don’t see a lot of mention of this in the Indian media at least.”Cherry says that the follow-up to Cobrapost sting has been very weak in reference to the legal notices the website has been receiving. She also adds that Sudarshan  TV also got a legal notice from Delhi Minorities Commission for allegedly airing a report where they referred to some locals from North Delhi's Bawana area as 'Rohingyas' and 'Bangladeshis'.Cherry says, “I went online to check the report...It was slightly disturbing to find both the anchor and the reporter agreeing and implying that the high crime rates in the area was because of the area being dominated by Rohingya Muslims and Bangladeshis.”  All this was without actual evidence being cited. “You’re not giving any evidence! Have you done a population census!?” she asks. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.