CAA, NRC, and the shifting legal ground beneath belonging.
In Assam, the state is "manufacturing foreigners out of floods." Dr. Ritumbra Manuvie unpacks how climate erosion, draconian laws, and digital hate converge to strip the vulnerable of citizenship, turning survival into suspicion.
In this video, Sharukh Alam, an Advocate at the Supreme Court of India, addresses the challenges of dealing with hate speech and hate crime in India.
Indian cities are segregated along caste and religious lines. A recent research based on government data from 15 lakh residential neighbourhoods suggest that residential segregation in India’s urban areas is as bad as racial segregation in the United States.
Of all of the marks India is making on the global stage this year, from the moon landing to the G20 Summit, not least of it all is India becoming the most populous country in the world.
The Citizenship Amendment Act was passed in 2019. And the country erupted in protest. It's been three years since and the law is yet to be implemented. But the dialogues it gave rise to continue to be relevant: democracy, freedom, equality.
9:12This is an excerpt from a longer conversation.
1:56:26Is the crisis facing Indian Muslims about more than citizenship? In this thought-provoking conversation with Asad Ashraf, Political Sociologist Prof Tanveer Fazal argues that the challenges confronting Muslims in India extend beyond legal citizenship to what is described as a broader process of d…
1:53Terror accused. Anti-national. Conspirators. These labels shape how public narratives define student activists Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam, jailed under UAPA following the anti-CAA protests.
22:20In this video, Fawaz Shaheen—lawyer, researcher, and National Executive member of the Association for Protection of Civil Rights (APCR)—raises four fundamental questions about the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. Over 50 crore Indians have been affected by a process marked by …
1:50:55This roundtable revisits Shaheen Bagh as a moment of Muslim political assertion rather than a symbolic protest. With voices from law, media, activism, and student movements, the discussion situates the CAA–NRC crisis as a historical rupture—one that transformed citizenship into a lived experience…
16:56Six years after December 15, 2019, Jamia Millia Islamia students, alumni, and faculty recount the police brutality unleashed on the campus during protests against the anti-CAA–NRC movement.
