AuthorAkshay Aurora

Protests against CAA/NRC and lessons from Modi’s India When India gained independence from her British oppressors in 1947, she vowed to remain secular, in contrast to neighbouring Pakistan, who chose to be a theocratic state. On December 12, 2019, India’s long-standing and cherished ideal of being a secular state suffered a massive blow when the Narendra Modi-led government passed the Citizenship...

Public gatherings were banned, tourists were asked to leave, telephone and internet services were shut down, schools were closed, and prominent leaders of the opposition were detained or placed under house arrest. This isn’t a piece about Pol Pot’s Cambodia, but about India, the world’s largest “democratic” regime. On August 5, 2019, the Indian state of Jammu & Kashmir (“Kashmir”) was plunged...