Friday, April 30, 2010

God, Golem, UID: Singularity as an object in the mirror

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God, Golem, UID: Singularity as an object in the mirror "In societies of control the individual is doubled as code, as information, or ...
Monday, August 24, 2009

India 's UID And The Fantasy Of Dataveillance

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The perils of establishing nationwide identity systems have always been a hot topic of debate in countries that attach great value to privac...
Monday, March 23, 2009

BJP’s IT Vision: The discreet charm of techno-Hindutva

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In June 2007 the Indian Express reported that the Shiv Sena (SS) is planning to build a software to monitor abusive communities on the popul...
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Saturday, January 31, 2009

Manichean echoes: Terrorists as sub-human

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Lex non distinguitur nos non distinguere debemus (The law does not distinguish and so we ought not distinguish) Maintaining propriety in pub...
Friday, January 30, 2009

Why Barkha Dutt should walk the talk?

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Writing her Independence Day-eve Khaleej Times column in 2007, on the government plans to muzzle electronic media through creation of a cont...
Thursday, January 1, 2009

India sleepwalks to total surveillance

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It wasn't tough for a protagonist in a Kundera novel to figure out if he/she were living in a police state. Looking out of the apartment...
Friday, January 18, 2008

Modi as Le Pen, critics as imbeciles

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A day before India celebrates it's 58th Republic Day Gujarat will get to see a film that talks to them on what an ideal Chief Minister ...