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India: Frontier of warfare? Wrong to securitise civil society discourse | Bharat Bhushan

by Bharat Bhushan, 18 November 2021

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Creating suspicion about civil society undermines its robustness and contribution to nation building

by Bharat Bhushan

November 15, 2021

Painting civil society organisations as anti-national is not new for illiberal regimes. What is new, is the attempt to raise the confrontation between the State and civil society to the level of