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In Lachit Borphukan's Assam, Muslim population explosion and fanatical plans of Badruddin Ajmal, the new age 'Aurangzeb'

Muslim population explosion is a terrifying reality in Assam and none can deny it

Explained: What is Assam’s ID proposal for Muslims and why is it being opposed?

A panel has recommended that five sub-groups of Assamese Muslims – Syed, Goriya, Moria, Deshi and Julha – should be clearly mentioned and recognised in the government notification

Two years of Assam NRC: Uncertainty looms over 19 lakh applicants for re-verification process

Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, when asked about the concerns over the NRC draft, simply stated that "the matter is pending in the Supreme Court and I will not like to comment on it"

No Muslim will face loss due to Citizenship Amendment Act, says RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat

The citizenship law is will provide protection to persecuted minorities in the neighbouring countries, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief said

West Bengal polls 2021: National Register of Citizens will have no impact on Gorkhas, vows Amit Shah

Shah, during an address after a roadshow in Kalimpong, said as long as the Narendra Modi-led BJP government is there at the Centre, no Gorkha will be harmed

Assam polls: BJP releases poll manifesto, promises NRC correction and freedom from vagaries of floods

Though the CAA was not mentioned in the document, party chief JP Nadda said at the launch that the citizenship act will be implemented 'in time'

Assam NRC list of August 2019 not final, state coordinator Hitesh Dev Sarma tells Gauhati High Court

In an affidavit, Sarma said that over 10,000 names were either wrongly included or excluded in the list, adding that necessary orders have been issued to delete nearly 4,800 'ineligible persons' from the document

Around 10,000 'ineligible names' to be deleted from final NRC in Assam, say reports

NRC coordinator Sarma said he cannot comment on the total number of “erroneous inclusions", however, sources told PTI that around 10,000 people have been identified whose names were "wrongly included"

Beyond the Kashish Film Festival controversy, members of Mumbai's queer community allude to a widening rift

The Kashish Film Festival row has brought to the fore differing opinions about whether Pride overlaps with political issues, as well as the discrimination that trans individuals face within the Indian queer community

Revisiting a ground report from Delhi's Shaheen Bagh: What it means to live in a city of dissent and under siege

This essay is as much about the making of the iconic protest site of Shaheen Bagh as about emergent forms of life, publics and place-making in a city, and a nation, being reconfigured by the normalisation of barricades.