Nandita Das wonders why people need to prove citizenship again

Expressing concern over the direction the country is heading to, actor-director Nandita Das on Friday wondered why people would have to prove again that they are Indian citizens.

Instead of making the people "file hundreds of forms to prove all over again they are citizens" of the country, issues such as unemployment, farmers' death, economic crisis and environment should have been given priority, said the director of 'Manto', a 2018 film on the life of Pakistani author Sadat Hossain Manto who was born in British India,
"We don't want to have another Partition, we don't want to divide ourselves on the basis of religion yet again. Had Manto been present today, he would have definitely commented you have learnt nothing from history. After 70 years (of Independence), you want religion as a marker to define yourself!" she said