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Aadhaar: A Biometric History of India’s 12Digit Revolution
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HarperCollins
| Author:
Shankkar Aiyer
| Language:
English
| Format:
Paperback
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Author:
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Aadhaar was born in July 2009, yoking modern technology and management expertise
to political will. The biometric-based unique identification system, built by tech czar
Nandan Nilekani and his team of innovators, was designed to enable subsidies and
social spends reach their true destination, plug institutional corruption and save trillions
of tax-rupees. In July 2017, Aadhaar is 1.15 billion identities and growing.
In Aadhaar: A Biometric History of India’s 12-digit Revolution, senior journalist
Shankkar Aiyar traces the history of this ambitious, controversial undertaking. He
speaks with President Pranab Mukherjee, Prime Ministers Narendra Modi and
Manmohan Singh, P. Chidambaram, Yashwant Sinha, Rahul Gandhi and others to
document how politicians with diametrically opposed ideologies were equally
determined to propel Aadhaar.
Aiyar maps how Aadhaar’s application expanded beyond its original intent. He
researches its ups, downs, and turnarounds; discusses the concerns of activists and
bureaucrats on potential misuse of the database for state surveillance; raises the
urgent need for a data-protection and privacy law and spells out the solutions. An
unusual contemporary dramatization, this book is a breathless ride through recent
changes in India’s political and economic landscape.
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Aadhaar was born in July 2009, yoking modern technology and management expertise
to political will. The biometric-based unique identification system, built by tech czar
Nandan Nilekani and his team of innovators, was designed to enable subsidies and
social spends reach their true destination, plug institutional corruption and save trillions
of tax-rupees. In July 2017, Aadhaar is 1.15 billion identities and growing.
In Aadhaar: A Biometric History of India’s 12-digit Revolution, senior journalist
Shankkar Aiyar traces the history of this ambitious, controversial undertaking. He
speaks with President Pranab Mukherjee, Prime Ministers Narendra Modi and
Manmohan Singh, P. Chidambaram, Yashwant Sinha, Rahul Gandhi and others to
document how politicians with diametrically opposed ideologies were equally
determined to propel Aadhaar.
Aiyar maps how Aadhaar’s application expanded beyond its original intent. He
researches its ups, downs, and turnarounds; discusses the concerns of activists and
bureaucrats on potential misuse of the database for state surveillance; raises the
urgent need for a data-protection and privacy law and spells out the solutions. An
unusual contemporary dramatization, this book is a breathless ride through recent
changes in India’s political and economic landscape.
About Author
Shankkar Aiyar is a prominent India-based political economy analyst, columnist andauthor. His path-breaking book Accidental India fetched him acclaim as a publicintellectual. A journalist for over three decades, Aiyar has covered every parliamentaryelection since 1984. His 1991 scoop on India pledging its gold reserves drew worldattention to the crisis in the economy which consequently compelled liberalisation. Aiyarhas analysed every Budget since liberalization. As a columnist Aiyar specializes in theinterface of politics and economics. He has authored a study on India's socio-economicfault lines and its hundred worst districts. His investigation on twenty-five years ofpolitical corruption is part of an anthology. He has been a Wolfson Chevening Fellow atCambridge University where he studied the lifecycles of emerging economies. Aiyar is aVisiting Fellow at the IDFC Institute.
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