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'Can Appeal Against Bounced Cheques But Not If You Lose Your Citizenship': Mohsin Alam Bhatt

Watch The Wire's Alishan Jafri in conversation with Mohsin Alam Bhatt about the foreigner's tribunal in Assam.
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Aug 05 2025
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Watch The Wire's Alishan Jafri in conversation with Mohsin Alam Bhatt about the foreigner's tribunal in Assam.
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'Unmaking Citizens: The Architecture of Rights Violations and Exclusion in India’s Citizenship Trials' is a study on the foreigner tribunals operating in Assam. Mohsin Alam Bhat, who is one of the authors of the study, reveal how an exclusionary politics informed by India’s colonial legacy has been mobilised to deny citizenship to hundreds of thousands of residents who were born and grew up in the state.

Watch the full interview to know more.

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