Tuesday, February 4, 2020

Citizenship is an idea of exclusion, citizenship is not about people, it is about state. It indicates the state’s relationship with people. Ideally, we should have civic nationalism rather than ethnic nationalism. The whole process of NRC, in my opinion, as you rightly said, undermines the idea of citizenship by birth, which is a liberal, universal idea. We are going for the idea of citizenship by relationship, which is a regressive idea in my opinion.