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Ep 50: Pramod Varma on India's Digital Empowerment

Brave New World -- hosted by Vasant Dhar

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Was There a Push Back?

There's a high chance it will be a failure. He was coming from a great run 20 year infurbilling enforces to India's IT icon, iconic company. And suddenly being pulled into Delhi,. New Delhi's politics and dealing with government which he has never done. So he was foreseeing the forces that might eject him very quickly from Delhi. The project was both supported and attacked at the same time. Many, many people believed lack of identity, you know, is fundamental, what you call friction to access anything. You can imagine because I mentioned this biometric identification system, people in the US think big brother.

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