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Friday, August 29, 2025
TopicCAA protests

Topic: CAA protests

Gautam Bhatia on SC internet order, Mahesh Rangarajan on faith & unravelling of India

The best of the day’s opinion, chosen and curated by ThePrint’s top editors.

It’s clear now – the real fight of Modi govt’s supporters is against women

Bollywood actor Deepika Padukone’s visit to JNU rattled them. And all BJP supporters could do was abuse women.

Left groups created ‘atmosphere of violence’ in JNU : Yogi Adityanath

Addressing pro-CAA rally in Gwalior, the UP Chief Minister said left groups had spread lies which need to be countered by conducting an awareness campaigns.

Deepika Padukone showed you can rattle power with silence too – if you just stand up

Padukone’s act of solidarity for JNU students rattled BJP so much its leaders called for a boycott of her film Chhapaak while Smriti Irani turned personal.

Mamata won’t let ‘unreliable’ Congress take credit for CAA-NRC stir with opposition meet

The West Bengal CM has decided to boycott a Congress-led all-opposition party meet on CAA and NRC on 13 January. TMC leaders say ‘excellent call’.

Tricolour, anthem — India’s Muslims on why they’re using national symbols in protests

Many Twitter users trolled protesters & credited the Modi-Shah brand of nationalism as the driving force behind the singing of the national anthem near Jama Masjid. 

Roy, Wilson & Krishna bat for CAA protests, Deepak Nayyar sees universities under threat

The best of the day’s opinion, chosen and curated by ThePrint’s top editors.

Plea seeking removal of protesters from Shaheen Bagh rejected by Delhi High Court

Shaheen Bagh has been the site of a non-stop protest against the amended citizenship law, NRC and NPR since mid December.

Indian intellectuals using secularism to shoot down CAA is only helping Hindutva camp

I decided to sign a petition in favour of the Modi government’s Citizenship (Amendment) Act, and was quickly labelled as an ‘Urban Nazi’.

On Camera

Mohan Bhagwat’s U-turn on ‘retire at 75’ is a Hindu succession problem

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat has backtracked on his retirement rules. The ‘75-year rule’ was applied selectively to sideline some leaders, but it doesn’t apply to the top brass.

Easy loans, uneasy ‘debt traps’. Women harassed by private lenders ask ‘who will restore lost dignity?’

A public meeting, where the women voiced their protest, took place this month in Delhi, grounded on the findings of an AIDWA survey, covering 9,000 women borrowers.

Post-Sindoor, joint doctrine tasks Special Forces with fighting info warfare & countering propaganda

Joint Doctrine for Special Forces Operations, released Wednesday, also outlines plans for the future expansion of AFSOD and the creation of Joint Service Training Institutes.

That Oval Office picture for ages deserves closer Indian reading, with a geopolitical lens

Putin sees this as a victory. Europeans have decided to deal with Trump on his terms for the sake of the larger Western alliance. We look at the lessons for us in India.