Creative Identification

1. Creative Identification

For progress to happen, 

Schumpeter tells us 

the need for creative destruction. 

For democracy to deepen, 

Martin Luther King tells us 

the need for creative tension.

For targeting to go on, 

UIDAI tells us 

the need for creative identification.

2. From fingerprints to shit hole

First, our fingerprints, 

and our iris. 

Now, there is a clamour, 

for our face. 

It is not far when they will 

trace our footprints. 

And then they will 

map our moles. 

Including those,

deep inside our shit hole.

Earlier versions of these are available as my facebook post here and in my twitter here and here. 

Earlier blog posts on Aadhaar

Nir-Aadhaar

Right to Privacy, Aadhaar and Democracy (also re-posted at LSE blog)

Aadhaar Interim Order Calls for Some Clarification

If a Lie is told Three Times

Aadhaar, Radiagate and Cablegate 

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