| No Images? Click here  On August 31, the Assam government will release an updated National Register of Citizens. The story of Kalpana Biswas, who was jailed at the age of 6 after her father was falsely accused of being a ‘foreigner’, and her family offers a terrifying glimpse of what most likely awaits those left out of the NRC. Meanwhile in faraway Amazon, it seems we did start the fire after all. Unlike the blazes in the Arctic, humans lit the flames that are now burning in Brazil, and far-right president Jair Bolsonaro is refusing to take responsibility for it. And in the midst of all the doom and gloom, there’s some good news as well. 22-year-old Sumit Nagal made India proud by taking on tennis legend Roger Federer in a first-round match at the US Open, and even winning the first set. He didn’t win the match, but walked away with many fans. Kalpana Biswas, who was 6 years old at the time, and Archana, who was only 2, were marched off to a foreigner detention camp inside a jail in Assam’s Kokrajhar district along with their mother Romoni. Their father Dilip was sent to another camp in Goalpara district.They were released on bail in March this year, after a social worker familiar with their case referred it to Human Rights Law Network’s Guwahati branch and they moved court on behalf of him. When the Biswas family returned to Mayang, their children and the village they once called home had changed beyond recognition.  As fires raged across Brazil's Pará, the second-largest state in Brazil’s densely forested north, a haze of distrust set in, fueled by President Jair Bolsonaro’s bombastic effort to deflect attention from his far-right administration’s role in a crisis gripping the world.Bolsonaro, who won the presidency last year as scandal engulfed his left-wing rivals, campaigned on a promise to open the Amazon to industry. The president ― nicknaming himself “Capitão Motosserra,” or Captain Chainsaw ― spurred an already-growing number of ranchers, loggers and miners to seek their fortunes clearing pristine rainforest as he slashed the budget at Brazil’s leading environmental enforcement agency and shifted control over indigenous lands to the agribusiness-dominated Ministry of Agriculture.  New to this email? You can sign up here.You can also follow HuffPost India on Flipboard.©2019 HuffPost India | Worldmark 3, FL 3, Aerocity, Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi, Delhi 110037 |
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