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<br /> All of a sudden, the same party that had opposed the idea of <keyword id="155319" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Aadhar">Aadhar</keyword>, calling it a fraud scheme and assured of <keyword id="6354572" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="CBI">CBI</keyword> enquiry if voted to power, has taken a U-turn from its own move only three years after ruling the country. While CBI is being engaged elsewhere, the finance minister <keyword id="42575" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Arun-Jaitley">Arun Jaitley</keyword> has mandated the linking of Aadhar to <keyword id="61610" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="pan">PAN</keyword>, driving licenses and several other documents.<br />
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<strong>Why do we take U-turn?</strong><br /> Before we jump in to analyze Aadhar and its allied insecurity, let’s get straight into philosophy of contradictions. What characterizes a critical thinker? American feminist historian <keyword id="4353413" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="joan-wallach-scott">Joan Wallach Scott</keyword> would say “pointing a finger to contradictions.” French philosopher François Noudelmann in his book <keyword id="310615" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Le">Le</keyword> Génie du Mensonge (The Genius of Lies) portrays <keyword id="352788" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Michel-Foucault">Michel Foucault</keyword> as a man who has the courage of truth.<br />
<br /> Perhaps U-turns are a necessary ingredient for triggering intellectual blunders. And nobody better than <keyword id="41281" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="NDA">NDA</keyword> government knows that most of us struggle to maintain stability in psychological unity. And at such a juncture, contradictions produce destabilizing breaches in the self.<br />
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<strong>How the government wants to go with Aadhar?</strong><br />
The 12-digit number will be required for all citizens of India to file tax returns, driving licenses, filing EPF, getting railway tickets and a variety of other services.<br />
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<strong>Why is it alarming?</strong><br />
Firstly, we need to do understand how Aadhar cards were made. Terming the procedure as causal wouldn’t be an exaggeration. A card that started as a mere identity card was gradually made into a mechanism to gain benefits from the government and now even to get basic things done in life.<br />
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The process of registering people on Aadhar was executed through private enterprises known as enrollers who operated freely without any government supervision at the field level. The qualifications needed to become an enrolment agency were quite low and nobody was from a recognized name.<br />
<br /> Also with the case of whether Aadhar would be mandatory for all these services still pending in the <keyword id="6354977" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Supreme-Court">Supreme Court</keyword>, taking such a move would be no less than violations of <keyword id="42836" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="SC">SC</keyword> guidelines.<br />
<br /> Besides, there is zero privacy of an individual. Aadhar doesn’t guarantee any privacy and allows for mass surveillance of the countrymen under the vague term of ‘national security’. Only law that is valid in the case is Section 47 that only <keyword id="86474" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Unique-Identification-Authority-of-India">Unique Identification Authority of India</keyword> (UIDAI) can file criminal complaint for theft of data.<br />
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<strong>Government is the new <keyword id="4646" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Big-Boss">Big Boss</keyword></strong><br />
No you aren’t criminal that you would need to hide. But let’s admit it nobody wants to be tracked by a big brother. Imagine the scene when somebody knows how much you earn and spend, where you holiday and which flight did you take on your last office trip, which hotel did you put up and what broadband do you use. And for many people in the country who work on contracts and you will track every penny you earn even if you don’t work throughout the year.<br />
<br /> And for the people who defend the bill saying you can share your personal data with <keyword id="6355629" type="CITY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Google">Google</keyword> and <keyword id="6354576" type="CITY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Facebook">Facebook</keyword>, then why not with government? Tell them, there is a difference between choice and compulsion. And one can just track you and the other one can prevent you.

Here’s why linking Aadhar to all services
isn't much of a sensible step by the Modi government

<p>Pinocchio becomes a real boy at the end of the famous fable, but what if he stayed a wooden puppet? And what if he grew up in modern-day Europe?</p>
<p>A French AIDS-awareness charity thought this through, and the result is a provocative ad that gets away with a lot more sex than Americans are used to seeing in commercials. Watch "Woody," as the character is known, go for a one-night stand that ends on a foreboding note. There's no actual nudity, but the simulation of sexual activity might be a no-go at your place of work:</p>
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<p>Woody's double-entendre lengthened nose reveals that it is not actually okay that he doesn't have condoms, and the ad's punchline is that such a situation is never acceptable.</p>
<p>The agency TBWA\France produced the spot with Control Films, the production company also responsible for <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/kanye-wests-american-psycho-parody-2013-6" title="psycho spoof">that American Psycho spoof</a> for Kanye West's album earlier this year. The Woody costume was made of foam and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16jLxl1TAwc&amp;feature=c4-overview&amp;list=UUJ24mTwxSj-xyOvHXXNkgRw" title="apply">took four to six hours to apply each time</a>.</p>
<p>The creative team went into the project wanting to find a unique way to make European singles aware of the fact that there is an estimated 650,000 HIV positive citizens unaware of their virus.</p>
<p><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">The awareness group behind the ad is <a href="http://www.aides.org/en/about_us" title="aides">AIDES</a>, founded by Daniel Defert, former partner of the renowned, late philosopher <a href="http://www.michel-foucault.com/" title="foucault">Michel Foucault</a> (the <a href="http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/405956.article" title="cited">most-cited man</a> in the humanities). Defert established the organization in 1984, after Foucault died of AIDS.</span></p>

Pinocchio Grows Up To Be An Irresponsible Partier In This Provocative HIV PSA

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<p><div class="image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image"><p class="source">Courtesy Zipporah Films</p></div></div></div>Full (and proud) disclosure: I-like my mother before me, as a matter of fact!-am an alumna of the <keyword id="5497" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="University">University</keyword> of California at Berkeley. I was a Ph.D. student there during a period that sprawled over more than a decade. (Just ask my dissertation advisers.) I worked my way through grad school by teaching in whatever department had work for me, and thus managed to get my degree without accumulating any student debt, which in part accounts for how long it took to finish the damn thing. But in reality, I suspect that I lingered around Berkeley as long as I did, auditing courses and cadging mini-research grants, simply because I loved the place so much.</p>
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<p>For all its labyrinthine bureaucracy and ever-rising fees, California's flagship campus was a bastion of great public <keyword id="6355445" type="COMPANY" weightage="100" keywordseo="Education">education</keyword>, a diverse, (relatively) affordable, egalitarian experiment gone right. In the years since I graduated in 2001, I've witnessed the struggles of UC-Berkeley with chagrin: the radical defunding of higher education in California (a problem that's existed in the UC system for decades, but that's worsened at a much steeper rate since the budget crisis under Arnold Schwarzenegger) and the subsequent corporatization of the university, which has been forced to raise student fees and cut employee benefits to a degree that threatens both the institution's excellence <em>and</em> its egalitarianism.</p>
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<p class="quote">Frederick Wiseman is sort of the Michel Foucault of documentarians. (See, I told you I went to Berkeley).</p>
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<p>With that background in place, you'll get an idea of the interest with which I approached<em> At Berkeley</em>, the 39<span>th</span> nonfiction feature from the great documentarian Frederick Wiseman. Wiseman, who is now 83 years old, is in a class by himself as a filmmaker: It's not just that no one else is doing this kind of work as well as him, but that he's the only one doing it at all. An institutional historian who focuses not on individuals but on systems, Wiseman is sort of the <a href="http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/foucault/" target="_blank">Michel Foucault</a> of documentarians. (See, I told you I went to Berkeley.) He's interested in the way people living and working together in large groups-a <a href="http://www.pbs.org/pov/highschool/" target="_blank">high school</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/1885918879/?tag=slatmaga-20" target="_blank">a ballet company</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/1885918518/?tag=slatmaga-20" target="_blank">a mental institution</a>, a<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_jZRlh5QTc" target="_blank">hospital</a>-establish hierarchies, distribute power, resolve conflicts, and find ways to coexist, or at least survive.</p>
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<p>Wiseman's films can be challenging to a first-time viewer because of their formal austerity and rigor (though once you start to understand his cinematic language, a sardonic sense of humor emerges). He uses no voiceovers, subtitles or talking-head interview clips to contextualize what's happening on screen: His gaze aims for something as close as possible to fly-on-the-wall observation, with everyday crises and moments of tedium unfolding in chunks of real time. <em>At Berkeley</em> is four hours and four minutes long, which will not do much for its already slim chances of walking away with this weekend's box office. But-while I think it's perhaps best viewed broken up into two halves, if possible-I wouldn't lose a minute of <em>At Berkeley</em>. If anything, it made me wish Wiseman had a weekly TV show that monitored the daily life of my alma mater.</p>
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<p><em>At Berkeley</em> moves at an unhurried pace, but it's never less than urgent in its curiosity about the gears that make this huge institution run. Like a prospective student on the most thorough (and least partisan) college tour of all time, we get to go everywhere and eavesdrop all we want. Wiseman's camera audits a variety of graduate and undergraduate courses, in which students and teachers discuss a poem by John Donne, the design flaws of a pair of prosthetic legs, the future of space travel, and, in more than one class, the impact of the latest spate of budget cuts and fee increases on their own educations and lives. We drop in on board-room discussions-some of them contentious-among the university's top administrators, including the chancellor, Robert Birgeneau, who left the office in mid-2013. (He's never identified onscreen, but it doesn't take long to figure out that he's the big cheese).</p>
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<p>Wiseman shows us workers laying asphalt, a custodian sweeping the stairs, a greens worker riding a mower across one of the campus' endless sloping lawns. (We'll learn in one of those board meetings that, thanks to staff cuts, there's just one guy who mows the whole place.) Along the way there are fascinating detours into scholarship of all kinds: A grad student remotely operates a state-of-the-art robot as it struggles to fold a towel. The linguist George Lakoff leads a legitimately mind-blowing classroom discussion about the human inability to conceive of time outside spatial terms. Robert Reich, Clinton's secretary of labor-turned-public policy professor, gives an equally impressive, if more pragmatic, lecture that stresses the difficulty of resolving conflict among large groups of people with discordant and often unspoken aims-a topic that, in one of those found resonances so common in Wiseman's work, has everything to do with the conflict between students and administrators that occupies most of <em>At Berkeley</em>'s last hour.</p>
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<p>In October of 2012, a year after a large student and faculty protest that nearly shut down the campus, a few hundred Berkeley students staged a march through the campus to the main library, where they occupied a large reading room for several hours, making speeches and issuing lists of demands with the passion, enthusiasm, and lack of coherence that only young lefties can muster. Wiseman traces this whole affair dispassionately over the course of a day, cross-cutting between the protest in progress and the reaction in the chancellor's office, which has mostly to do with the nuts and bolts of security and crowd control: Should the head librarian shut down the library before its normal closing time? Are there enough campus police in place if the protest should turn violent? We're encouraged to identify neither with the students' half-baked radical rhetoric-one kid has a red hammer-and-sickle painted on his face, which is just not a good look for 2013-nor with the administrators' vaguely paternalistic dismissal of the protesters' often valid outrage. Instead we see the protest and its management as two connected parts of the ecosystem of a functioning, if imperfect, democratic institution.</p>
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<p>One of the sharper student activists, in a rabble-rousing speech in front of Sproul Hall, invokes the name of <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhFvZRT7Ds0" target="_blank">Mario Savio</a>, a leader of the Free Speech Movement that got its start on those same steps in the early '60s and jump-started student protest around the country. How much, the speaker asks, did students in Savio's time have to pay to be part of this great public institution, one that's now struggling to remain both truly public and truly great? Answer: nothing. It's a rare Wiseman moment in which the filmmaker's own deeply held belief seems to flicker into view beneath the speaker's words: Education, like speech, should be free.</p>
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