--- On Sun, 26/4/09, . <svaks...@gmail.com> wrote:
> From: . <svaks...@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [silk] Disenfranchised Minorities?
> To: silklist@lists.hserus.net
> Date: Sunday, 26 April, 2009, 9:38 AM
> On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 7:36 AM,
> Bonobashi <bonoba...@yahoo.co.in>
> wrote:
> >
> > (ii) Why cannot the voters' id card be left to be
> issued only to those who have no other id?
>
> I'd prefer ONE Indian Card which will serve the purpose of
> a
> national's identification for all social services provided
> by the
> government. The latter however raises the question of
> "which"
> government service is still usable by all Indians.
>
>
> > (iii) Why are names systematically mangled and details
> botched up, not at the outset, but after they have been
> correctly recorded in the first instance?
>
> hmm.... dont forget that Indians take pride in their
> mother-tongue, so
> your name (with details included) will be "correctly
> recorded" in the
> State's local language and then transcribed to the National
> language
> and finally when its printed in the colonial lingua franca,
> you'd not
> recognize yourself even if your name bit your nose.
>
> --
> .
While I say this, it is not without recognition of the hazards of handing over
too much information to a dysfunctional system of administration. There has
been tremendous resistance to the single national card idea from civil
liberties quarters, and they should not be discounted altogether.
Having said that, we still have too many id cards and proofs of identity
floating around (passport was yet another) and could do with a single-point
card. What it should be is a moot point.
About the need for caution with regional languages: I shall heed your warning
and shall duly caution my nose. Fortunately, my name is short: one of those at
school regularly burst the banks of various forms with his Chandrika Prasad
Choudhury.
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