New Delhi, Dec. 31 -- Sushmita Dev, a Congress Member of Parliament, recently noted, "Anyone who applied to the National Register of Citizens [NRC] legally claimed that they were Indian. But now, under the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill [now an Act] they will have to claim they came from Bangladesh. This is a Catch-22." This quote invites us not to see the NRC or CAA in isolation - but as a part of a collection of inchoate, haphazard laws and amendments to the Constitution in pursuit of what can be broadly termed as Hindu rashtra....