“Look straight ahead,” said the man taking my photograph for Aadhaar. I had already stood in a queue, given him my address and pressed all ten fingers on his machine. Now he wanted a good look into both my eyes. “After all this,” I asked him, “will the government know…


Robert Clements is a newspaper columnist and writes a daily column, which has graced the pages of over 60 newspapers and magazines, from a daily column in the Khaleej Times, Dubai, the Morning Star, London, and in nearly every state in India, from The Statesman in Kolkata, to the Kashmir Times in Kashmir to the Trinity Mirror in Chennai.