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UN Raises SIR Concerns Over Voter Rights; Modi Govt Offers No Public Answer

Three UN Special Rapporteurs have raised serious concerns about India’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, warning about issues of transparency, possible exclusion of eligible...

Papers for the Citizen, Accountability for the Powerful: India’s Growing Documentation Paradox

India is witnessing an extraordinary paradox. On one hand, ordinary citizens are increasingly asked to produce documents to establish who they are, where they were born, whether they are...

A Passport Without Citizenship? India’s Legal Gap Needs Reform

The recent statement by the Ministry of External Affairs that an Indian passport is “a travel document, not proof of citizenship” has reignited an important debate. While the statement...

NTA’s Failure Cannot Be Solved by Banning Telegram

The Union government’s decision to restrict access to Telegram ahead of the re-conduct of the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) reflects a troubling tendency in public...