South Asia Citizens Web

U are no longer U,
– I am no longer I,
– We are all 12 number Digits
– It’s their UID.

The Aadhaar or UID project has grave implications for every Indian.

It will enable the government to profile every citizen and track their movements and transactions.

There is no guarantee that intimate personal information — pre-existing illnesses, romantic relationships etc — won’t be shared with other agencies, warns Praful Bidwai.

Author and historian Dilip Simeon talks about his first novel called "Revolution Highway" which is a fictionalised account of the heady days of the Naxalite movement in the 1960s and 1970s, of which he, in fact, was a part. Simeon says the novel is based on the realities of those days.

We, the undersigned condemn the undemocratic manner in which Rohintion Mistry’s novel Such A Long Journey has been omitted from the Second Year Bachelor of Arts (SYBA) English Literature syllabus of the University of Mumbai.

We are disturbed and alarmed by the manner in which the Vice-Chancellor of the University, Dr. Rajan Welukar, bowed down to the demands of the Bharatiya Vidyarthi Sena (the student wing of the Shiv Sena) and had the novel dropped from the syllabus overnight, purely on account of the group’s displeasure with “anti Shiv Sena passages”

The Babri Masjid dispute was never a clash between Hindus and Muslims. It was between Hindutva and Secularist visions of India. With the recent judgement, the movement which fostered hate and fear seems to have triumphed.