The year when ‘The Mask’ became quotidian as the handkerchief to be sold at the tapri, or the local corner shop.

The Aadhar details update process is a rather straight forward one, the Maha e-service centre in our urban village Devachi Uruli on the outskirts of Pune helps in arranging an appointment as well as filling up the form for the main Aadhar office which is a classroom in a primary school in Hadapsar. The biometric and computer terminal is operated by a Hijabi Mother-Daughter duo who run a smooth set up as a node of last mile digital governance in India.

The Aadhar is the edifice of public goods delivery in the country and is a part of the everyday from the Bank to the Sim Card. It’s time it’s ubiquitous nature is understood in its own terms.

I am blessed by the generosity of friends who let me in to their homes and life worlds, giving me a window to understand the entanglements of the digital in their lives redefined by the gig economy. The ‘Digital Subaltern’ can talk project which I have been working on since the past one year mainly in Pune.

One can certainly do independent research and publish if one has the fire.

Institutional affiliations help but are not everything.

Sunday Home Cooking. Kolkata Biryani with Malabar style Raitha.

Takes the entire freaking weekend to prepare, albeit every bit as worth.

I had a blast chatting on this powerful yet pithy conversation with Sana Quadri , a Dubai based Gulf Expert and Podcast Host on the Cafe Khaleej.

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