Tears, Queues and a Never-Ending Search for Kagaz: The Real Story of Aadhaar
Slight spelling anomalies and mismatched fingerprints keep a child out of school or a family from their ration entitlements.
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At the Inderlok Aadhaar centre, the day's heat rises. So does people's frustration with a system that treats them with a callousness they have done nothing to deserve. Their only fault is being born in a country with many languages which decided to impose a unique identity, attached to biometrics, now mandatory for basically everything. This ID card is depriving them of their most basic rights: the right to education, the right to food.
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