My article in The Hindu on the report of the Parliament's Standing Committee on Finance that rejected the National Identification Authority of India Bill, 2010.

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Aadhaar: time to disown the idea

R. Ramakumar

The government should pay heed to the parliamentary standing committee's views and suspend the Aadhaar project. It would be a travesty to push the project in through the backdoor.

Frontline cover story on UID/Aadhaar

This fortnight's Frontline has a cover story on Aadhaar. The set of articles are below.

Identity concerns: R. Ramakumar
 

Interview: with R. S. Sharma, Director-General and Mission Director, UIDAI
 

Parties in confusion: Venkitesh Ramakrishnan
 

A case for privacy: A. G. Noorani
 

PDS in peril: R. Ramakumar
 

False promises on health services: Mohan Rao
 

Enrolment saga: Usha Ramanathan
 

How reliable is UID?: R. Ramachandran
 

Interview: with Dr Edgar Whitley, London School of Economics
 

Tool of exclusion from NREGS: Nikhil Dey

Some more photos from "Occupy London"

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(All photos taken by me in the first week of "Occupy London")

From the sides of "Occupy London" by R. Ramakumar is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

Based on a work at ramakumarr.blogspot.com.

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Thanks to Sebin Abraham Jacob, my notes on the Occupy London movement have been translated into Malayalam, and carried in http://malayal.am.

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