#54 Cold Takes by Boju Bajai feat. Shova Sharma

के नयाँ नागरिकता अध्यादेश साँच्चै प्रगतिशील छ? आमाहरूले बाबुको पहिचान नभएको स्वघोषणा गर्ने भनेको के हो? यो कसरी गर्ने ? तपाईको यी सबै प्रश्नका उत्तरहरू पत्रकार Shova Sharma सँगको हाम्रो नयाँ एपिसोडमा।

On May 23, President Bidhya Devi Bhandari promulgated Nepal Citizenship (first amendment) Ordinance 2021. The heated debate on the ordinance has slowed down. So it’s time for our cold takes on Nepal’s latest citizenship law, featuring journalist Shova Sharma. She is a reporter at Setopati. She covers politics and parliament and has written extensively on citizenship laws. She explains what the ordinance means for women’s right to confer citizenship to their children, and how the Nepali state continues to treat women as ‘दोस्रो दर्जाको’ नागरिक.

Please follow her work and her on Twitter @SharmaShova

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Here are some explainers written by Shova Sharma:

नयाँ अध्यादेशले विदेशीलाई नागरिकता दिन्छ? किन भयो विवाद?

बाबुको पहिचान नभएको स्वघोषणा गरे आमाको नामबाट नागरिकता पाइने

नागरिकता ऐनमा फेरि पनि महिलालाई विभेद?

‘नेपाली आमाले विदेशीका बच्चा ल्याएर नागरिकता दिने अभियान चलाए भने?’

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For more, follow the reading list here:
नागरिकतामा सत्ताको सौदाबाजी 
On being a woman in Nepal by Dalima Tamang
Unequal citizens by Praveen Kumar Yadav
In June 2020, AbhaLal2, Kalpana Jha and Sangita Thebe wrote ‘What mainstream feminists are getting wrong about the citizenship debate’ pertaining to the parliament endorsement of a bill to amend a clause in the Citizenship Act that requires foreign women married to Nepali men to wait seven years after marriage to obtain a citizenship certificate. The new ordinance has changed that and paved the way for foreign women married to Nepali men to obtain citizenship without the seven years waiting period.
Women have no nationality- By Manjushree Thapa, September 21, 2015