The article is a review by Bibek Debroy on the book "Aadhaar: A Biometric History of India’s 12-digit Revolution" authored by Shankkar Aiyar, Visiting Fellow at IDFC Institute.
"Normally, such a history would have been written 20 years down the line, when protagonists would no longer have...
Why do planned schemes of human betterment, designed with the best of intentions, often fail? James C. Scott, the Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Anthropology at Yale University, sets out to answer this question in his 1998 book Seeing like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the...
Shankkar Aiyar’s ‘Accidental India: A History of the Nations Passage Through Crisis and Change’, presents a thought-provoking perspective on the economic and political history of post-independence India. Combining academic rigor with journalistic flair, the book introduces its ...
