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Modification PM MAKES IDENTITY THE PRIME PLATFORM
Aadhaar is the most ambitious programme India has ever undertaken. It has crossed 1.15 billion unique identities – and growing. What caused Prime Minister Narendra Modi to so strongly back a programme that he had vociferously attacked at one time? Why does the government ask that all services, from private services like mobile phones and bank accounts to public ones like social spends, be linked to Aadhaar? Is biometric data, that most intimate of personal information, safe in the servers of the UIDAI? Does it breach privacy? Senior journalist Shankkar Aiyar offers a behind-the-scenes look at how the Modi government views Aadhar.
43 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 17, 2017
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Shankkar Aiyar
9 books8 followersSHANKKAR AIYAR is a prominent India-based political economy analyst, columnist and author.
His path-breaking book Accidental India fetched him acclaim as a public intellectual. A journalist for over three decades, Aiyar has covered every parliamentary election since 1984. His 1991 scoop on India pledging its gold reserves drew international attention to the crisis in the economy which consequently compelled liberalization. Aiyar has analyzed every Budget since 1991.
As a columnist Aiyar specialises in the interface between politics and economics. He has authored a study on India’s socio-economic fault lines and its hundred worst districts. His investigation on twenty-five years of political corruption is part of an anthology. He has been a Wolfson Chevening Fellow at Cambridge University where he studied the life cycles of emerging economies.
Columns:
New Indian Express, Bloomberg Quint
His path-breaking book Accidental India fetched him acclaim as a public intellectual. A journalist for over three decades, Aiyar has covered every parliamentary election since 1984. His 1991 scoop on India pledging its gold reserves drew international attention to the crisis in the economy which consequently compelled liberalization. Aiyar has analyzed every Budget since 1991.
As a columnist Aiyar specialises in the interface between politics and economics. He has authored a study on India’s socio-economic fault lines and its hundred worst districts. His investigation on twenty-five years of political corruption is part of an anthology. He has been a Wolfson Chevening Fellow at Cambridge University where he studied the life cycles of emerging economies.
Columns:
New Indian Express, Bloomberg Quint
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