Rahul Bhatia on Aadhaar, Hindutva, Cong role and 2020 Delhi riots | Teaser
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Amid the BJP’s push for a “new India”, concerns around citizen rights and surveillance have frequently taken centre stage.
In his new book, The Identity Project: The Unmaking of a Democracy, Mumbai-based journalist and author Rahul Bhatia has traced this transformation of India, especially the evolution of Hindu nationalism and how its ideas sparked the creation of the Aadhaar project.
“The whole idea about Aadhaar and about identification…one of the reasons why it was really contested was because it is an extremely powerful tool. What are you going to use it for,” says the author about questions surrounding Aadhaar. About the Congress’s role in this biometric identification project, Bhatia says, “People say the BJP is terrible. Let’s vote in the Congress. Anybody who has a brain will remember what happened back then.”
It was his investigation into the 2020 Delhi riots that led Bhatia to write the book “as an act of curiosity”. “In all the interviews, the thing that came out was a sense of being let down by people who should have stopped the violence (in Delhi in 2020).”
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