Aadhaar: My body, my rights

The bad news is, it's not just about the Aadhaar-PAN linkage

‘Dear Govt.. Can i have my left hand back please.. Need to scratch my head.’

This one tweet beautifully mocked two arguments made in the Supreme Court by Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi. The AG said that a) citizens do not have an absolute right over their bodies, and therefore can be compelled to give their fingerprints and iris scans to the Universal Identification Authority of India (UIDAI); and and b) that you “cannot import conceptions of privacy” into India, because, he said, on a train in this country, people will tell you their life stories within five minutes.