The world is rightly horrified by how US President Trump is deporting people, including minors, without due process. Something similar is underway in India, but worse and under the radar. Even since the border skirmishes between India and Pakistan this year, Indian authorities have been rounding up Muslim citizens and deporting them on the spurious grounds that they either Pakistani or Bangladeshi infiltrators.
Abhishek Saha is an Indian journalist and author of No Land's People. He joins us on the show to discuss the devastating impact of India's forced deportations.
Read No Land's People: https://harpercollins.co.in/product/no-lands-people/
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Credits:
Presented by Aman Sethi
Edited and produced by James Battershill, Ayodeji Rotinwa & Carla Abreu
Theme song ‘Odyssey’ performed by Edward Abela
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Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
01:44 What's happening in India?
05:02 Why Bangladesh?
07:05 The global pushback against migration
12:39 Punishing inherited people
14:42 Who determines what people are 'undesirable'
17:50 Identifying outsiders
21:48 Abusing bureaucracy
