Ambiguous Citizenship Is So Cool

In a devilishly clever move to shore up the plunging value of Indian citizenship, GoI has quietly let loose a pigeon among the cats. Last Wednesday, in a gathering of people you only encounter when you have to renew your passport to get your Aadhaar card details changed so that you can get a new gas connection, the ministry of external affairs – whose job is to track affairs Indians may be carrying out with other nationals, despite being married to the country that’s saare jahan se achha – deployed one of their operatives to slip out the fact that an Indian passport is not proof of Indian citizenship.