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Jude T D’Souza

Let’s make UID a failure

UID will fail to generate data superior to what is available today.

Some minor corrections on  this article Appeared in Hindu Businessline

Rajiv Kumar Jude T D’Souza

The Aadhaar project has  never taken into account diverse views and criticisms. Now, to not question the very basis of a project at the implementation stage smacks of partisan considerations. Endless debates and reviews are a bane of our [...]

Rose Merin

Dirty Dancing

To be a cinematic dancer, you don’t necessarily be a conventional “mango breasts, wasp waist, and elephant hips” beauty with fair complexion, nor are you expected to be from an elite Hindu family, which automatically bestows you with the “respectability” factor and the “authenticity” to perform “Indian classical dances”. But, mind you, by being a [...]

Sanil M N

Theatre of Reservation

Anand Teltumbde’s ‘One More Reservation’ (EPW, April 3-9, 2010) indirectly legitimizes the anti-reservationists’ disguise as the pro-reservationists. Reservation is welcomed by the anti-reservation public to articulate their hegemony. Many of those who support the cause of reservation in public are against the rights of the marginalized communities in their private [...]

K Ashraf

Disposable Biographies? A Naxalite Turned Muslim

C.K. Abdul Azeez, scholar, writer, thinker, former Naxal leader and the working chairman of People’s Democratic Party (PDP) was jailed last September. Three weeks back he was released on bail on the condition that he presents himself and signs at the Madurai CBI Court daily. Just a few days after Madani’s arrest, CBI arrested him [...]

Itty Abraham

The AFSPA and the Constitution

The ongoing debate over the use of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act in Kashmir is typically couched in terms of a choice between the potential political gains and the potential threat to law and order that may follow from its withdrawal.  In fact, this law, and others like it, goes [...]

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