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How does one become an Indian citizen ?

Articles 5 to 9 of the Indian Consitution deal with the issue of who is entitled to citizenship. ( It was enacted in 1949 and came into effect in 1950.) Article 9 stipulates that any Indian citizen accepting citizenship of a foreign country automatically ceases to be an Indian citizen. Article 10 guarantees the continuance of citizenship once acquired and article 11 clarifies that Parliament will have the right to regulate citizenship. The Citizenship Act, 1955 details the various ways in which  a person can become an Indian citizen. Essentially, this is possible by virtue of birth, descent, by registration or naturalisation. The Citizenship Amendment Act of 2003 added a further category of overseas Indian citizens, who however will not have all the rights of full-fledged citizens.

Does being born in India automatically make you an Indian citizen ?

Not quite. It depends on…

Welcome to the Middle Finger Awards 2012 presented by Mashed Musings. The awards honors the best news makers of 2012 in various categories. We are committed to an unbiased and honest approach toward selecting the nominees and the winners. If you have any concerns about any of the winners not deserving his/her award, please keep it to yourself.
So, lets begin the ceremony.

*Drum rolls. Trumpets Blaring*

Here is the first category :

The Middle Finger Award for the Most Courageous act of 2012

And the nominees are :

Dr. Manmohan Singh – for gathering enough courage to address the nation 7 days after the protests and letting everyone know that he too is a father and there aren’t enough commandoes protecting his daughters. Theek hai?

Sheila Dixit– for having the courage to come to Jantar Mantar and lightening something that looked like a half burnt candle while the…

4th Global Conference
Space and Place

Monday 9th September – Thursday 12th September 2013
Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom

Call for Presentations
Questions of space and place affect the very way in which we experience and recreate the world. Wars are fought over both real and imagined spaces; boundaries are erected against the “Other” constructing a lived landscape of division and disenfranchisement; while ideology constructs a national identity based upon the dialectics of inclusion and exclusion. The construction of space and place is also a fundamental aspect of the creative arts either through the art of reconstruction of a known space or in establishing a relationship between the audience and the performance. Politics, power and knowledge are also fundamental components of space as is the relationship between visibility and invisibility. This new inter- and multi-disciplinary conference project seeks to explore these and other topics and open up a dialogue about…