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Blood and water: The strange link between CAA and a 1958 Bollywood classic

The contentious CAA and protests against it find echoes in Yahudi

Zeeshan Ayub, protest, citizenship, CAA, CAB, DU
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File photo of Actor Zeeshan Ayyub speaking with writer-activist Arundhati Roy and economist Arun Kumar seated next to him during a protest against the amnended Citizenship Act at Delhi University campus

Uttaran Das Gupta
Appealing to inviolable Roman law, Jewish jeweller Ezra (Sohrab Modi) seeks justice for his daughter Hannah (Meena Kumari) from the Emperor (Murad), accusing the young prince Marcus (Dilip Kumar) of infidelity, for which the punishment is death. “Why are there two laws in Rome?” he demands, in open court where Marcus is to be married to Princess Octavia (Nigar Sultana). “One for you and one for us.” In a melodramatic speech somewhat reminiscent of Shylock, the Jewish moneylender in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, Erza cries out: “Your sorrows are painful, and our sorrows are tall tales? Your blood is

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