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BJP, BSY and a big plan: Yediyurappa’s exit is a calculated risk by saffron party’s central leadership July 26, 2021, 9:31 PM IST
Neerja Chowdhury is a political commentator.
Karnataka chief minister BS Yediyurappa, who resigned on Monday, is the only mass leader BJP had in the state, and in the entire south. The way seers of the powerful Shaivite Lingayat mutts rallied around him in recent days, urging the party high command to let him continue, showed his hold on the community. Lingayats, who are 17% of the state’s population, are the second-largest community – Dalits are around 23% – and have been the mainstay of BJP. They affect electoral outcomes in as many as 100 out of 224 assembly seats in the state.
Beware the new Surveillance Raj that invades personal and political July 24, 2021, 8:57 PM IST
The writer is an architect.
The first census of independent India a 10-yearly survey was conducted in 1951 to gather statistics on population distribution, gauge the status of housing, household income, education, etc. The idea was that it would help evaluate government programs, planning and policy decisions, and even aid business houses with information for marketing products. Surveyors appeared patiently at your doorstep and diligently recorded everything by hand.
Data collection was meant to improve lives not invade them.
Illustration credit: Uday Deb
Seventy years later, what began as a method of using information to enhance daily life is now a great sweeping tide of mass technological surveillance. This new form of public scrutiny has nothing of the slow meticulous scribbling into a sweaty ledger, but is instead like a lethal gas mak