Mukul Kesavan: “Democratic societies are based on the presumption that their residents are citizens...With a National Register of Citizens, the burden of proof is abruptly shifted...An all-India NRC would turn citizens into supplicants.” https://www.telegraphindia.com/opinion/an-all-india-nrc-would-turn-citizens-into-supplicants/cid/1721575
An all-India NRC would turn citizens into supplicants

A national apparatus dedicated to snouting up false citizens but only from a single religious community: this will be India’s gift to modern governance