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Ep 9: On the Citizenship Amendment Act


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Hello! I am back after a long break! In this episode, I talk about the Citizenship Amendment Act. I try not to make any decisions for you, but hope that I've given you some ideas on how to research this topic better for yourself and try to understand whether this Act is good for the country, or otherwise.
Other great resources on this subject:
Amit Varma and Srinath Raghavan in The Seen and the Unseen, where they give you a detailed history of all the rules around citizenship.
https://seenunseen.in/episodes/2019/12/22/episode-152-the-citizenship-battles/
Puliyabaazi is a Hindi podcast. In one episode, the hosts tried to read the Preamble in more understandable Hindi, devoid of the original legalese.
https://ivmpodcasts.com/puliyabaazi-episode-list/2020/1/6/special-episode-
Gautam Bhatia is a lawyer in the Supreme Court who spoke about the CAA here
https://youtu.be/9n_bjgrCLjg
The Citizenship Act of 1955 can be read here https://indiacode.nic.in/bitstream/123456789/4210/1/Citizenship_Act_1955.pdf and the amendment is here http://egazette.nic.in/WriteReadData/2019/214646.pdf
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