How does a state decide who belongs — and what does it do to those it casts out? In the world’s largest democracy\, t hat question is being fought in real time: in the detention regimes of Indi a's CAA and NRC\, and in the youth-led protests now sweeping the country ag ainst the mass deletion of 130 million voters from India's electoral rolls. The same machinery recurs — shifting the burden onto individuals to pro ve their right to belong\, so that the poor\, the migrant\, and the min ority are the ones stripped of it.
Writer and journalist Ragh u Karnad — author of Farthest Field and co-founder of The Wire — has spent a year as a fellow at the New York Public Librar y\, recovering a forgotten history: the British internment of Japanese civi lians at Delhi’s Purana Qila in 1942. In this moderated conversation\, he t races that logic from the wartime camp to this week’s headlines. Join us fo r a conversation on citizenship\, belonging\, and the rule of law\, from th e archive to the present. This event will be moderated by Arnaaz Ameer\, S. J.D. Candidate at HLS.
Lunch will be provided.
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