At one time, the country had the folklore, the myths, of coping with the outsider. Our culture was open and plural, but today he is seen as a threat.
The NRC has put the fate of 40 lakh people in the balance.
As the Lok Sabha polls near and a 40 lakh population awaits its fate, it's clear that both the parties are riding an NRC tiger they can't dismount.
The process of drafting the list has enough checks and balances to safeguard rights of those whose citizenship is being decided.
Besides being a security risk, illegal Bangladeshi's influence the polity and eat into the already constrained resources of a developing India.
The NRC list raises many doubts. Many anxieties. And many questions.
Instead of fuelling a civil war, we have to find a dignified and responsible solution to this problem.
So, even before the final NRC is published, some 'experts' have declared 40 lakh people as 'illegal immigrants' from Bangladesh.
Well-educated Twitter-types like to claim they don't discriminate on the basis of caste. Yet they perpetrate its biases.
The bizarre implementation of National Register of Citizens (NRC) and the proposed Citizenship Amendment Bill have proved a nightmare.
