This is #Aadhaar's main feature. - It started from "Everyone is a subsidy thief" to "Everyone is a potential terrorist and needs to be surveilled".— V. Anand | வெ. ஆனந்த் (@iam_anandv) November 20, 2019
Deep distrust and xenophobic suspicion of the other was the founding principle. How biometrics can ever solve trust deficit? https://t.co/sd4iOZtpzA
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The root cause of this rupturing of our social fabric is the Modi government’s ‘mala fide unless proven otherwise’ doctrine of governance. The premise of the government’s policy framework seems to be that economic participants have mala-fide intent unless they can prove otherwise. This suspicion that every industrialist, banker, policymaker, regulator, entrepreneur and citizen is out to defraud the government has led to a complete breakdown of trust in our society. This has halted economic development, with bankers unable to lend, industrialists unable to invest and policymakers unable to act.
The Modi government seems to view everything and everyone through a tainted prism of suspicion and distrust due to which every policy of previous governments are presumed to be of bad intent, every loan sanctioned considered undeserving and every new industrial project deemed to be crony in nature.......
Read more at https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/the-fountainhead-of-indias-economic-malaise/article30000546.ece
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