- I don't think you should dismiss Aadhar too quickly on technological grounds.
- You mis-represent what I said. I never said Aadhar is citizenship etc., only that biometrics help identify people within the border at any given time.
- I agree with your third point. I am also for not dismissing right to privacy. Only said the concept cannot be straight away can be an import from developed nations.
- Lastly, I never said SC delivered judgement and neither gave any piece meal information. I had clearly mentioned SC had only questioned and linked the complete article which also clearly says the judgement is not delivered yet.
> what you are effectively suggesting is that 1 in 15 Bangladeshis has left India in the last decade
I am not suggesting anything. I am only answering to your questioning of the source of the numbers.
As for the your other points, you can hold counter or conspiracy theories. I was only answering to your source claim. You may want to repudiate this in public domain if you feel GoI is mis-estimating or ToI is misreporting.
Please refer to the ToI article I cited in the reference. This figure is not pulled out of thin air, but neither it is 100% accurate.
From ToI article: "The government, citing inputs available with it , told the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday that there were around 2 crore Bangladeshi immigrants staying illegally in India.
If you were to believe the government estimates, you have to believe it. Even if it's off by 50%, you still have 10 million of them.
P.S: In 2004 >> the estimate was 12 million, according to the article.
> However, unlike countries where similar schemes have been implemented, invasive bio-metric collection is being imposed as a condition for basic entitlements in India
Remember: India has a unique set of challenges to overcome if it has to survive and prosper as a nation. It is surrounded by not-so-amenable neighbors and with cross-border infiltration at a constant strategy used against India ("death by thousand cuts").[1]
And almost 20 million Bangladeshis have illegally crossed over from the eastern border [2] [3] and (unfortunately, reportedly getting Aadhar cards through whatever means, which defeats the purpose if it is true), for a country of a billion odd people at risk with such high uncertainty profile - the requirement to identify at least their own citizens vs the intruders/ offenders becomes a strategic and security action from the government perspective.
I think we would be in wrong to compare the "right to privacy" in this scenario to that of the more developed nations that are pretty much geographically blessed/ isolated, population wise less dense, religiously homogenous and technologically advanced as such that they can track covertly vis-a-vis getting biometric details directly. In fact, the Supreme Court of India has observed that [4] "Supreme Court asks if right to privacy is absolute?"
The idea that we might be living in someone else's dream or meditation was expressed in there. And the worlds are all dreams stacked within dreams. [0] [1]
Also Jung, that we might be living in someone's else's meditation and when the meditator wakes up all is gone.
"I had dreamed once before of the problem of the self and the ego. In that earlier dream I was on a hiking trip. I was walking along a little road through a hilly landscape; the sun was shining and I had awide view in all directions. Then I came to a small wayside chapel. The door was ajar, and I went in. To my surprise there was no image of the Virgin on the altar, and no crucifix either, but only a wonderful flower arrangement. But then I saw that on the floor in front of the altar, facing me, sat a yogi in lotus posture, in deep meditation. When I looked at him more closely, I realized that he had my face. I started in profound fright, and awoke with the thought: "Aha, so he is the one who is meditating me. He has a dream, and I am it." I knew that when he awakened, I would no longer be" [2]
An interesting take on the Yoga Vasishtha and the Philosophy of the film Inception.[3] Note: I do not have any affiliation with the organization or teachings etc., It's just a random link I googled, but thought can give a quick summary of the book without having to read through the whole book.
- I don't think you should dismiss Aadhar too quickly on technological grounds.
- You mis-represent what I said. I never said Aadhar is citizenship etc., only that biometrics help identify people within the border at any given time.
- I agree with your third point. I am also for not dismissing right to privacy. Only said the concept cannot be straight away can be an import from developed nations.
- Lastly, I never said SC delivered judgement and neither gave any piece meal information. I had clearly mentioned SC had only questioned and linked the complete article which also clearly says the judgement is not delivered yet.