There was significant criticism when Indian government announced of creating a multi-purpose unique identity card for each of its residents. Will it be another card to the already loaded purse on the back? - was one of the major concern looking at the budget outlay for the purpose. Continue reading
As I am all set to release an information portal on Orissa in the next one month, one point forces me to think again and again: shall I consider the present state of Orissa as a revival from its feudatory past for several centuries or as a continuation of the act of crowd on this globe with short-memory? To put it in different way, I am sitting between two competing thoughts - our quest for an identity and our adaptation of a sense of equality. Continue reading