Meha

Social anthropologist. Co-learner.

[Purushottam Agrawal @puru_ag]

सही सवाल
जो पूछे जाने हैं बार-बार
शुक्रिया राजेन्द्र जी

[Rituparna Chatterjee @MasalaBai]

The BJP-RSS playbook is tarnish every protest either as "anti-national" or "anti-Hinduism" even if the matter is something that affects even their homes - inflation, petrol, food, education, jobs. No point even trying to reason with them, or TV channels affiliated with them

[gulvinder @rebelliousdogra]

I gave them all her details. Sorry friends. Sorry Yalina 🙏

[eppy @epppyyy]

The government is detaining people protesting against Data Centres in Vizag

[Arvind Gunasekar @arvindgunasekar]

Two pellet gun victims in students’ protest along with 1976 batch IPS officer Yashovardhan Azad move SC seeking a ban on use of pellet guns for crowd disposal and compensation for the victims.
Petition filed by @vrindagrover

[suhas palshikar @PalshikarSuhas]

Wonderful to see that after indulging in uncivilized abuse and hate mongering for 13 yrs, some are suddenly taking offence when paid in a far milder coin than what they inflicted on this society...and lo behold, commentators are talking about this obediently

[زماں @Delhiite_]

#BREAKING: Jauhar University demolition put on hold

📍 Rampur, UP

Moradabad Commissioner has ordered a stay on the bulldozer action against Jauhar University, at least for now.

[Dr Ranjan @DocRGM_]

1963 Footage of Indian Protesters MARCHING to the Parliament without any restrictions.

The Degradation of Democracy in India should be studied...

[Maheshwer Peri @maheshperi]

Before we get into making a safe examination system, @NandanNilekani must examine the need for any entrance exam. Most exams are territorial power centres and business opportunities.

Take for example CUET. It is the most unnecessary examination Imposed on the hapless Delhi students that made the CBSE scores useless and killed school education. This was done to neutralise the AAP investment in government schools a waste. These kids cannot afford private coaching and a state topper is also denied a seat.

Similarly, NEET is useless for those who want to join a private medical college. The price differential (5 lacs and 1.5 crores) is so huge that at rank 30,000 all government colleges close their admission while even at rank 13 lac, private colleges are unable to fill seats. Private colleges are reserved for the rich 1% of India. If you indeed fighting against reservation and for meritocracy, shouldn’t you include this?

The TET, even JEE advanced, UGC NET etc can be modified to make it a test for those who don’t cross a certain level of education.

We must reduce the entrance exams. We must reduce the number of students who should take the exam. Increase the eligibility. For Ex: Make 80% in boards a qualification to get into all India institutions like AIIIMS, IITs etc. Make school education mandatory. Punish those in dummy schools. Hedge. De-risk. Spread.

Make sure that a 3 hour exam doesn’t become the life altering exam. It will reduce stress. Reduce suicides. The business of entrance exams has to be reformed before we reform the conduct of such exams.

[Nikhil Pahwa @nixxin]

Let me tell you where this is going, and what the Nandan Nilekani committee for exams is broadly going to recommend and why:

1. Nandan Nilekani has a standard playbook: create "Digital Public Infrastructure", create a digital identity and try and build 100% national coverage for this. He has a single playbook for government that he and Ispirit have used in the past, and you can expect the same.

This Playbook has two key parts: identity and interchange infrastructure.

2. The identity: One part of this Playbook already exists... the ID, specifically the Apaar ID. They've done: Aadhaar (ID), UHID(Health), Apaar ID(Education), FasTag(Transportation).
Every crisis is an opportunity for our Tech godman. COVID was used create UHID without consent during vaccination.

The Apaar ID, which schools have forced students to get and link to Aadhaar, will be used here. The idea was always that these would be used for examinations.

3. The infrastructure is the second part: IT services companies benefit from the deployment of this infrastructure. Look at banking , GSTN and govt services and you can see who benefits and how. There's sometimes conflict of interest for some people but who cares.

4. The people: You need to look at the people in this committee and ecosystem that will be built around it. Some of them will be old affiliates... You'll see the former Aadhaar "volunteers" in different parts of it, and in the business that get built around it. Guess who backs ekstep and who is there. If you start a people map, you'll see a pattern. Earlier omidiyar network was involved and now I'm sure the Bill and Melinda gates foundation (some affiliates there) might be interested.

There's a pattern but if course, even lots of correlation may not be causation.

5. The committee will recommend the usage of Apaar ID and exam systems that use them. They might recommend an authority to manage them similar to UIDAI, or just coopt or infiltrate NTA. There are areas where Nilenani influence remains: NPCI, various RBI committes mapping its future. During COVID, in Cowin and the National Health Authority, affiliates were involved, though that didn't end well.

6. We need to be conscious that this is a part of the citizen mapping plan: the Aadhaar plan, which maps and tracks us from, in their words "cradle to grave". Multiple IDs linked to Aadhaar give it a sense of permanence and help with dedupe across databases. All this eventually is used to build, as the Aadhaar related state resident data hubs said “a 360 degree citizen profile”, and that's the surveillance infrastructure. All touchpoints of your file, mapped for surveillance. Fed into NATGRID.

7. I should clarify that this isn't a Narendra Modi plan. This precedes his ascension to power: the Congress was already setting some parts of it up. Guess who worked with them on it? The bureaucracy wants this and the politicians get coopted.

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Of course, I'm not being serious. This is all a joke. A worst case scenario that probably isn't true. Just a silly nightmare for civil liberties. This is a parody account and a parody comment.

[The Red Mike @TheRedMike]

‘I was detained and threatened by police’ CJP Volunteer Junaid EXCLUSIVE

@Saurabh_Unmute

Watch Full Video on The Red Mike’s YouTube Channel.

[Live Law @LiveLawIndia]

Justice Bhuyan lamented that the space for dissent in India was shrinking.
Read more: https://t.co/CXbPw9HAEy
#JusticeUjjalBhuyan #SupremeCourt #studentsprotest #Bail

[Mohammed Zubair @zoo_bear]

Istifa toh hogaya..... Ab..

[Mohammed Zubair @zoo_bear]

Inse Miliye, Ye hain Satyam Pandat, Rashtriya Hindu Veer Sena ke Rashtriya Adhyaksh. Chhote Baccho pe apni Mardangi dikhate hue...

[Wednesday @Astryx_en]

3000 students, their futures and dreams, 38 buildings, thousands of books in the library – still waiting for you to speak up. #SaveJauharUniversity

[Naomi Datta @nowme_datta]

Gen Z-indabad!

[Citizen Kau @citizen_kau]

Take a good look. This is what a pellet gun does.

[Vrinda Grover @vrindagrover]

DMRC you need to give substantive and sound reasons for repeatedly shutting down an important transport artery.
Making it inconvenient for people to join the protest at Jantar Mantar is a malafide and arbitrary reason.
In a functioning democracy the court would hold you accountable.
Ah, and you are not even opening the Supreme Court Metro Station!
Now is that not an interference in the administration of justice??

[Vrinda Grover @vrindagrover]

Tax payers , this is your money.