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 'The price of citizenship for Indians like Goa’s Joseph Pereira — uncertainty, red tape, tears'  ThePrint Sep 5, 2024
'Joseph Pereira was the lone applicant from Goa to request citizenship under CAA. The Pereiras’ saga is both a validation of the CAA’s intent and a damning indictment of the prevailing system it aims to replace. It forces us to confront uncomfortable questions: While the Pereiras are distinguished by their success, how many others like them are caught in this twilight zone of identity? And what is the cost of this “success”? Decades of uncertainty and a life of fragmented belonging – this is the price tag of citizenship for some of us Indians, says Karanjeet Kaur, journalist and former editor of Arré, in this week's column.