Shankkar Aiyar speaks to The Statesman about his new book, Aadhaar: A Biometric History of India's 12 Digit Revolution.

Swarajya carries an engrossing excerpt of Shankkar Aiyar's latest book, which looks at how a thirty-minute meeting between Nandan Nilekani and Prime Minister Modi that resurrected the Aadhaar.

In this article, Visiting Fellow, Renuka Sane asks if the legal foundations on which the Aadhaar operates match up to the requirements of a program that is likely to touch the lives of all citizens of India....

Watch Karthik Muralidharan discuss his co-authored Working Paper, "Payments Infrastructure and the Performance of Public Programs: Evidence from Biometric Smartcards in India".

Beyond creating a modern welfare state, Aadhaar can also be leveraged to democratise credit      

Nandan Nilekani, former UIDAI chairman talks about how Indians are on the cusp of a similar transformation in banking and payments. He uses the example of IDFC bank as a private player who is leveraging Aadhar for secure financial transactions

Asia Society hosts a discussion on the new book "Rebooting India"

The election day debacle in Mumbai shows that the Election Commission's voter list data have long been suspect. Aadhaar would be a great solution for second-level authentication.