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Saturday, March 14, 2026
TopicCAA-NRC-NPR

Topic: CAA-NRC-NPR

Why is Modi govt still putting off census? ‘CAA, NRC, bid to avoid another storm before 2024’

Census has to be preceded by NPR which is precursor to NRC, both of which created furore in the wake of CAA. Govt may be avoiding backlash when it hosts G-20 Summit in September.

Supreme Court’s Shaheen Bagh judgment is well-meaning judicial anguish, not binding law

Constitutional questions require dissection with a sharp surgical knife; what the Supreme Court used in the Shaheen Bagh case instead was a hacksaw.

60 Delhi MLAs & I could be ‘doubtful citizens’ if NPR-NRC take place, says Kejriwal

At a special session Friday, Delhi assembly passed a resolution that calls on the central government to withdraw the 'NPR-NRC exercise'.

On NPR, should states trust Home Minister Amit Shah’s repeated assurances?

Home Minister Amit Shah said that people won't have to submit citizenship documents under the NPR exercise, which begins on 1 April, and no one will be marked ‘doubtful’.

NPR not against minorities, won’t identify doubtful citizens, Amit Shah tells Rajya Sabha

Home Minister Amit Shah clarifies that govt will not seek any documents from an individual for the National Population Register, a UPA-era initiative. 

Take the quiz: How much do you know about India’s complex citizenship laws?

A quiz to help you navigate the Byzantine bureaucratic mesh of CAA-NPR-NRC. Twenty questions.

Why the root of Delhi’s Hindu-Muslim riots is a malevolent creeper planted by Supreme Court

The top court wrote a diabolical chronology and playbook through its Assam NRC order, and the BJP turned it into an all-conquering, polarising dog-whistle.

Bihar on NRC: Is Nitish Kumar asserting himself successfully or is this BJP’s retreat?

The Bihar assembly Tuesday passed a resolution against the NRC, making it the first NDA-ruled state to oppose the contentious exercise.

Jamia isn’t anti-national, Gandhi wanted to help raise funds with a ‘begging bowl’

Jamia Millia Islamia was not and is not a religious seminary. It was founded to inculcate Indian nationalism among Muslim youth.

Stretching the Overton Window from Amit Shah to Shaheen Bagh

If we didn’t have Shaheen Bagh, the centre for a populist like Arvind Kejriwal would have been further on the Right.

On Camera

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.