They Belong Here: An elderly couple’s victory for citizenship

They Belong Here: An elderly couple’s victory for citizenship

For most people, citizenship is an unquestioned part of life. It is something inherited through family, lived through generations and reflected in the ordinary acts of existence—being born in a place, growing up there, working there, voting there, raising children there and finally growing old there. But for many vulnerable people in Assam, citizenship can become something they are suddenly required to prove, sometimes after decades of living as…