Anatomy of an ‘unrest’
During my time away, a story that fascinated me — in a train-wreck kind of way, and as a cautionary tale of the danger of the media disseminating half-baked news […]
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DeMonetisation and Digital Payments
DeMonetisation did not promote the uptake of digital transactions Driving India towards a less-cash, digital payments economy was one of the aims claimed by the Prime Minister when he invalidated
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India’s Great Leap Forward
A year on the Prime Minister’s Great Idea may have turned out to be a dud Mao ZeDong’s Great Leap Forward [1] has to be the most outstanding example of
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What happened in Parel, Mumbai is not an accident, it’s a crime
The people who died today taught us a very important lesson that its not only our job to remind our elected officials of their responsibilities but also see to it
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How does linking your Aadhaar to your bank account destroy the banking system?
Linking Aadhaar to bank accounts is a recipe for creating benami[2] bank accounts and scaling benami bank transactions. It threatens to destroy your bank accounts and destroy the country’s banking system. It’s devastating that the integrity of banking processes is being destroyed by dividing, outsourcing and privatising processes integral to core banking so that they become the responsibility of no one.
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Citizens or Subjects
Many of the problems and issues in India – witness the political debate and the controversies that are so rife on twitter and other social media – are to do
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Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh Insaan and why Haryana is burning #KillingFieldsOfHaryana
Modi traveling in VVIP Augusta Westland 139 helicopter Ram Rahim eating chocolate in VVIP Augusta Westland 139 helicopter after rape conviction Who is Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh Insaan? Gurmeet Ram
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The Blue Whale Suicide Game Challenge #bluewhalechallenge
This is the second day in a row I’ve discovered something suicidally whacky on Twitter. The first was when I found a profile with a UID number on it. Today
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How Aadhaar UID verified the identity of an anonymous Twitter handle
Something strange came to my attention today. An otherwise anonymous Twitter profile, but it had an Aadhaar UID number in the place of the name. The profile said the person
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