[Reader-list] India's ID project catches fancy of US lawmakers- 163

[Rajendra Bhat Uppinangadi]

Dear Taha,

so you want to have the cake and eat it too, so put my thoughts into
straight jacket of nazi , fascist thoughts.? Well, you have your right to
think as you feel like, that is freedom of expression.!

Regards,

Rajen.

On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Taha Mehmood
<2tahamehmood at googlemail.com>wrote:

> Dear Rajen,
>
> There are times when I feel like bowing my head in the honor of your
> thoughts. The lucidity, the clarity, and the vision of your thoughts
> is simply breath taking.
>
> >even when the starting point is incorrect, say the data bank of LPG users,
> driving licences, BPL cards, I see the positive aspects of it,>
>
> There were times when many people who saw positive aspects of gassing
> numbered Jews at Auschwitz. Should one go only by positive sides of
> everything? It's true though that there is a positive side for
> everything.  But aren't there other ways to think besides just
> positive and/or negative?
>
> >that these datas can be corrected and the project carried forward,>
>
> And how do you know that this data can be corrected? Did Nandu
> personally called in to speak with your kind self last night?
>
> Maybe it suits some of us on the reader list to do the 'policy talk'
> not that 'policy talk' is injurious to one's health but then there are
> others who should be left out from such a conversation, primarily
> because, it is conjecture, secondly because, it makes little sense to
> the uninitiated, as such assertions are based on pure assumptions
> which are not verified at all.
>
> I don't know that this data could be corrected that's why I am curious
> to know how this data could be corrected, if you do know how this data
> can be corrected then please share with us,  plus all the news that
> one is reading these days indicate that previous lists which are
> incorrect could be used to give UID numbers to Indians. What hooks me
> to this data gathering story is not only it present but also its
> history.
>
> We have a history of numbering all sorts of things beginning from 1871
> census where survey parties used get beaten up in villages because
> people were deeply suspicious of them. Come to think of it, since
> those days we haven't had a single instance of getting all our numbers
> and our names right. Strange isn't it?
>
> That does not certainly mean that one should do away with ration card,
> PAN card, driving license and so on. Not at all. However that also
> does not mean that one should be diverting 1.5 lakh crore rupees to
> create one more database?
>
> I am not sure which way the government is going to go on this. But
> first I wish that the government of India set up a website for UIDAI
> so that we all know what's happening.
>
> Warm regards
>
> Taha
>



-- 
Rajen.