Among the protesters rallying in India against a controversial new citizenship law that critics call anti-Muslim are thousands of female students and conservative Muslim women who seldom appear in public places. At a university in the Indian capital which has been at the forefront of protests
In India, demands to scrap a controversial new citizenship law present the most serious challenge that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has faced since his Hindu nationalist government came to power power six years ago. The legislation has fanned fears that it will marginalize the country’s 200 million Muslims and erode its secular constitution by introducing religion as a criterion for citizenship