Arundhati Roy Likens India’s CAA-NRC Push to 1935 Nazi Laws

1 articles · Updated · The Hindu · Jul 23

Arundhati Roy said Indians are being “pushed to the wall,” arguing the Special Intensive Revision is “CAA-NRC in disguise” and shifts the fight from land and welfare to voting rights and citizenship.
Roy framed that threat through Hannah Arendt’s idea of citizenship as “the right to have rights,” and compared legacy-paper citizenship tests to the 1935 Nuremberg laws under Nazi Germany.
She said student protests have outgrown campus demands, with young demonstrators reclaiming “India’s dignity” and creating a movement distinct from the 1970s JP movement.
Roy also linked Adivasi, environmental and Ladakh protests to a wider political crisis, arguing the government ignores dissent because it has captured election machinery and believes it cannot lose power.
Her warning widened the stakes beyond any single protest, saying spontaneous anger alone will not be enough and that political organizations must now step in.