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India’s Migrant Expulsion Crusade Feared to Cause Chaos, Asia Sentinel

Available at Asia Sentinel23 September 2019 Prime Minister Narendra Modi government’s plan to expel millions of illegal immigrants is expected to sow chaos and confusion across the country, with critics charging that a hurriedly compiled database endangers hundreds of thousands of indigenous citizens, includes many who shouldn’t be on it, and is being used to […]

Attack on Caravan journalists shows “the impunity enjoyed by political groups”: The Network of Women in Media, The Caravan

The Caravan 12 August 2020 On 11 August 2020, three journalists working with The Caravan—Shahid Tantray, Prabhjit Singh and a woman journalist—were beaten, subjected to communal slurs, threatened with murder, and sexually harassed, while reporting in Subhash Mohalla, in northeast Delhi. The Network of Women in Media, a national collective for women in the media, released […]

Chakmas, Hajongs starving in Arunachal, says rights body, The Hindu

The Hindu27 April 2020 ‘Their ration cards were seized in 1991’ A Delhi-based rights body has sought Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s intervention in ensuring food for the Chakma and Hajong communities in Arunachal Pradesh who have allegedly not been included in the government’s economic package. The Chakmas and Hajongs, displaced in the 1960s by violence […]