[Reader-list] UID CARD Doubts

[Rajendra Bhat Uppinangadi]

Dear Taha,

for me identity is about me, as an individual in relation with the nation
and its society, made up of many individuals, for we are particles in the
society, that makes up the nation,and thus we have a system to rule
ourselves with democratic norms, and the system is made up of individuals,
thus the individuals have both good and bad actions binding them in to the
nation and thus society.Some individuals would love to dominate the others
in the society and the nation with hunger for power, with playing to the
emotions of others, with faith, caste and creed and regional affinities in
this game,some would like to continue to be in positions of material power,
with the same tactics, thus for all identity is about being the living being
in society, in the nation. For a few it may not matter, as for them they are
above all, "intellectuals' with their intellect they would love to rule and
subvert the rule of laws, it is alright if it remains their wish without
violent means to do so, but many a times, it is these cowards, which use
their intellect and freedom that is ensured in the rule of laws, to subvert
the very rule of laws, and put in place their intellectual comrades.

On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 6:41 PM, Taha Mehmood
<2tahamehmood at googlemail.com>wrote:

> Dear Shashidhar and AK Malik,
>
> Why do you get this impression that I am complicating things? When in
> fact I am asking a very simple question. I sometimes feel that I have
> become completely neurotic in obsessing about identity in such a
> public fashion for the last so many years. But maybe sometimes it
> requires a neurosis to drive home a point.
>
> So without further ado. Please allow me to put my question to you.
>
> What does one mean by identity?
>
> I would thank you from the bottom of my heart if you could please tell
> me the answer of this very very simply question. I gather from your
> mail that you seem to have a clear notion of what UID is all about. I
> would not post any mails on this list if you were to tell me the
> meaning of identity, a meaning which could be applied universally.
>
> So that every time I read this fuzzy word -identity- in UID I know
> what it means and every time this word comes across me I would know
> what it means and of course it must mean the same thing. Hope you
> wouldn't mind taking some time off your busy schedule to clear the
> fuzziness from -identity-, would you?
>
> And Shashidhar which sort of a change you would rather choose?
>
> Would you go for a change if you know that the change is for the worse
> or would you go for a change if you know that the change is for the
> good.
>
> And what if you didn't know what sort of a change it was then! What
> would you do?
>
> Would you rather go for a change which you didn't know was good, or
> did not know was worse. Or if you would rather if change were to come
> to you then would you not prefer to rather stay where you were and
> spent some time in weighing and measuring and thinking and speculating
> about the good that this change may do to you or harm you in some way
> and apply this change to tests and maybe then proceed with a
> confidence of a belief? Wouldn't you rather think before standing in a
> queue to give your fingerprints, just because everyone is doing it?
>
> Didn't they tell us after independence that big dams are good for all?
> Didn't they say that all our problems with respect to food, hunger,
> water, electricity will go if we have big dams? Didn't they ask us to
> put our faith in technology? Well what happened to that promise? We
> changed didn't we? and what happened? Are we free of all food, hunger,
> water, electricity problems? Do you want to put your belief in the
> words of these people again without doubting it even a single bit?
>
> Warm regards
>
> Taha
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Rajen.