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Joined December 2007
Every critique we raised in the adversarial phase of Aadhaarโs architecture is playing out in real time - exclusion, denial, and fragility baked into everyday governance.
Imagine. The burden of being poor in India is just too much to bear.
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It's a double dip with a festival spend based offer + 10% direct card offer
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@CreativeWolf @anivar @logic @the_hindu @anvarkerala @vijaita @AroonDeep Legally, government data handled via private servers can breach the IT Act (Sec 43A & 72A) and Official Secrets Act. Sensitive information must remain on government-controlled NIC servers โ not outsourced to private entities,must use @nic.in / .gov.in domains under NIC.
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No public debate, no discussion. No tender or open competition either. How much is this contract worth?
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Why I see 2003-04 Microsoft Playbook Everywhere in AI era. This sounds similar to "Project Shiksha" Implemented in India By Microsoft for Windows Vendor Lock-In that time. Last decade we saw FreeBasics copying Same to attack Netneutrality This decade We see AI players.
OpenAIโs latest classroom experiment is starting in India. A deal with Ariseโa private-school network that covers over 1,800 schools, including Jaipuria Schools and Delhi Public Schoolsโgives 10,000 free ChatGPT licenses to teachers. But the fine print has schools on edge.
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@vijaita @AroonDeep Expected better reporting from you both. It's a shame to see FUD & Propaganda without fact check appearing in a national daily
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The reverse track https://t.co/KBeGsG2lik
Considering Indiaโs stance for ODF (2006โ07) & National Open Standards Policy (2011), todayโs standards push toward single-product lock-in marks a collapseโviolating the 2010 Mandatory Open Source Policy & 2013 FOSS adoption framework. Zohoโs rise is a symptom of this downfall.
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In effect, it re-implements monopolistic enclosure pattern that FOSS advocacy dismantled two decades ago. The symbolic inversion - an Indian company reproducing the very colonial digital logic #FOSS India resisted- marks closure of the decentralization arc that began circa 2001
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โ Proprietary stack packaged as โnational alternativeโ to global dependency. โ Vendor-tied cloud presented as sovereignty infrastructure. โ Platform leverage to absorb ecosystem partners instead of federating them. โ Open-source rhetoric neutralized through selective open APIs.
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Zoho reusing 2002-03 Steve Balmer playbook. With this India's digital reversal of progress is effectively complete. Let me call it out #ZohoIsEvil
Now in @the_hindu Zoho officials are spreading FUD (Fear , Uncertainty, Doubt) on #opensource , which is a legitimate policy usage and Hindu and its editors failed to correct such FUD Image via @anvarkerala
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Digital India is walking back two decades in 2025 โAI-first Indiaโ that technically resembles 2003-era e-governance- central portal, vendor dependency, citizen as dataset.
Considering Indiaโs stance for ODF (2006โ07) & National Open Standards Policy (2011), todayโs standards push toward single-product lock-in marks a collapseโviolating the 2010 Mandatory Open Source Policy & 2013 FOSS adoption framework. Zohoโs rise is a symptom of this downfall.
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Now in @the_hindu Zoho officials are spreading FUD (Fear , Uncertainty, Doubt) on #opensource , which is a legitimate policy usage and Hindu and its editors failed to correct such FUD Image via @anvarkerala
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BBMP census is linking caste, religion and other details to Aadhaar number and EPIC See the pictures of the survey forms distributed below. Serious invasion of privacy @ChristinMP_ @Lolita_TNIE @anivar @dp_satish @kappansky @digitaldutta @dhanyarajendran @TheKenWeb
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The founder of @Replit's advice for young people in 2025: โThe future is entrepreneurship. Not just building companies, but being entrepreneurial inside companies too. We see non-engineers on Replit creating millions in revenue for their employers.โ โThe main skill is
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Considering Indiaโs stance for ODF (2006โ07) & National Open Standards Policy (2011), todayโs standards push toward single-product lock-in marks a collapseโviolating the 2010 Mandatory Open Source Policy & 2013 FOSS adoption framework. Zohoโs rise is a symptom of this downfall.
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