Have you not yet linked your bank account or mobile telephone number with your Aadhaar card? You’re guilty. Are you finding it difficult to fill complicated GST forms? You’re guilty. Did you ever keep cash in the house? You’re guilty. Do you eat meat? You’re guilty. Do you read Mughal history? You’re guilty. Do you feel it’s not necessary to play the national anthem in movie theatres? You’re guilty. Are you insisting on a right to privacy? You must be guilty!
As a Leviathan state also becomes a super-snoop surveillance state, with news TV as its shrill storm trooper, modern democracy’s basic principle – innocent until proven guilty – is being turned on its head. Every citizen is now potentially guilty and Read More
