Watching a Netflix documentary on the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution that established jus soli citizenship in the USA and its states, and thinking of how jus soli was systematically destroyed in India due to the efforts of one single violent xenophobic pressure group.

It's amazing how much influence the movement - the Assam Agitation - commands. From the Assam Accords, dropping of police cases against perpetrators of massacres like Nellie (today is its anniversary), Silapathar, etc, to CAA 1985, 2003, Assam NRC 2019 & maybe an All India NRC.

And to anyone bringing up the Atal Bihari Vajpayee connection, please don't? That spurious connection was referred to, with dubious citations, by a CPI(M) Rajya Sabha MP. Also, don't just say that the victims of Nellie were Muslims, that absolves the Assam Agitation off its ...

... anti-Bengali, anti-immigration, ethnonationalist character. Around the same time as Nellie (where victims were majorly Bengali Muslim), there were Silapathar & Chaulkhowa Chapori where victims were majorly Bengali Hindus. Notice the intersection? There is a direct ...

... connection from « Bongal Kheda » of the 1940s to recurrent massacres like Goreswar, North Kamrup, Khoirabari, Nellie, Silapathar to CAA 1985, CAA 2003, & the Assam NRC 2019. Yet people will be like 'but they've got a point there, see the Bengalis taking over Mumbai'. ছিঃ!

Also probably speaking too soon or too much, but to be honest, je veux devenir un citoyen ici.

মুখপোড়া দেশের একেবারে পাঠ চুকিয়ে দিতে ইচ্ছা যে করে না, বললে ভুল হবে। জানি আমার বা মা-বাবার হয়ত কোনো অসুবিধে হবে না, ফরাসদেশও যে একেবারে স্বর্গবেহেস্ত, তা নয়। তাও। মহা জ্বালাতন।