The twelve-digit number has been at the crossroads for a while now, failing to identify as a citizen’s identity, his nationality, his access to benefits and even in its very relevance. A recent Meghalaya High Court verdict brings this issue to the spotlight
As over 400 such people from West Bengal are held illegally by Odisha police and charged with being: “foreigners”—Bangladeshis, in other words—the Calcutta High Court has responded strongly. The entire issue is set to flare up as a divisive plague that could one day engulf the entire nation