Poem: Ramu Ramanathan Narrated by: Omkar Govardhan Photo:Anand Deshpande Night falls down from the sky The Warkari gathers a bit of a cloud on his thigh The darkness embraces him as he sighs He invokes Namdeo / Eknath / Janabai Did they also have an Aadhaar? Or Nir-Aadhaar did they Read more…
In what is a clear violation of a Supreme Court order that Aadhaar cannot be made mandatory for bank accounts till the case in the Supreme Court is concluded, the Finacle banking software used by banks requires Aadhaar in order to create bank accounts, reports Moneylife. The Supreme Court, in Read more…
ആധാര്‍ കേസില്‍ ഭരണഘടനാബെഞ്ച് രൂപീകരിക്കാതെ നവംബര്‍ മാസവും കടന്നുപോയി. 851 ദിവസങ്ങള്‍ പിന്നിടുന്നു, ഭരണഘടനാബെഞ്ച് രൂപീകരിക്കാന്‍ സുപ്രീംകോടതി തീരുമാനിച്ചിട്ട്. 2 വര്‍ഷവും 3 മാസവും 21 ദിവസവും. അവസാനമായി ആധാര്‍ കേസില്‍ കോടതി വാദം കേട്ടു എന്ന് പറയാവുന്നത് 2015 ആഗസ്ത് മാസത്തിലാണ്. രാജ്യത്തെ മുഴുവന്‍ ജനങ്ങളെയും ബാധിക്കുന്ന, നമ്മുടെ വ്യവസ്ഥിതിയുടെ തന്നെ ഭാഗധേയം നിര്‍ണയിക്കാന്‍ പോന്ന ഒരു ബൃഹത് പദ്ധതിയുടെ ഭരണഘടനാ സാധുതയാണ് പരിശോധിക്കപ്പെടേണ്ടത്. 2015ലെ വിധിയ്ക്ക് വിരുദ്ധമായി Read more…
Poem: Ramu Ramanathan Narration: Puja Sarup Hello Mr Aadhaar! Will you stop playing the fool! My biometric is complaining! You are changing all the rules! All of this began, in another age When you pinged me: a message: Oye Citizen Ji: Your existence is a top secret deal It’ll be Read more…
Ghosts! The very term is evocative. Widely perceived as parasitical and feeding off the human body, the term generates the strong unconscious reaction of wanting to get rid off them. The hard part though is to convince people that ghosts exist because otherwise they would not be too willing to Read more…
On August 24th 2017, WikiLeaks published secret documents from the ExpressLane project of the CIA pertaining to the cyber operations the OTS (Office of Technical Services), a branch within the CIA conducts against liaison services. The OTS provides a biometric collection system to liaison services around the world with the Read more…
India Post website appears to have added the option to de-link Aadhaar to their form for Aadhaar linking. This is actually a requirement for AUAs and KUAs according to the rules, which is being ignored in the push for linking Aadhaar with everything, as we pointed out in the post Read more…
The Direct Benefit Transfer pilot for the Public Distribution system in Ranchi’s Nagri block in Jharkhand resulted in widespread exclusion and denial of food to some of the most needy in the state, as reported by the Right To Food Campaign in February this year. Aadhaar’s ghosts, that the government Read more…
This January, HRD Minister Prakash Javdekar had made a claim that 80,000 ghost lecturers had been found due to linking of Aadhaar. “So far only 85% teachers have given their Aadhaar numbers and we have found 80,000 cases in which lecturers were listed as employed with more than one institutes,” Read more…
The UIDAI keeps insisting that Aadhaar is secure. Biometics can’t be bypassed, enrolment software can’t be hacked, and so on. So I put together a quick list. This list is under construction. Keep checking for updates. April 2012: An enrolment agent was found to have issued 30,000 Aadhaar cards in Read more…