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Sunny Side Up Episode 15

Celebrated TV presenter, actor and author Anu Hasan on her life experiences and how to maintain a positive outlook.

Gratitude strengthens the immune system, lowers blood pressure and reduces symptoms of illness. Anu Hasan compares a person's attitude to a muscle. The more you exercise your 'positivity muscle' with gratitude and positive thoughts, the stronger your ability to remain grateful and positive, even during difficult times.

Lawyer Usha Ramanathan has been one of the most vociferous voices against the Unique Identification Authority of India's Aadhaar project. She represented petitioners in one of the many cases against the UIDAI that the Supreme Court collectively heard arguements this May. At a public talk, hosted by the Centre for Law and Policy Research in Bangalore, Ramanthan spoke about the numerous problematic facets of the biometric-based Aadhaar project. This 5-part series highlights some of those arguments.

Aadhaar will take India to an Orwellian reality. This is evidenced in a tender floated by the Broadcast Engineering Consultants India Limited - or BECIL. Under the Information & Broadcasting ministry, BECIL wants to establish a system that will plug into 'mobile insights platforms', including, but not limited to, Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Google+, LinkedIn, Instagram, Flickr, Playstore, email, news, blogs and more.

Jayna Kothari is a co-founder of the Centre for Law and Policy Research in Bangalore and practices as a Counsel in the Karnataka High Court and the Supreme Court of India. In this 5-part series on the Aadhaar project by UIDAI, Kothari explains the impact of Aadhaar's mandatory gender disclosure clause on the rights of the sexual minorities of the country.

Have you ever wondered if declaring your gender a violation of privacy? Transgender and intersex individuals go through multiple gender markers throughout their lives. Their identity documents may therefore have different gender markers. Declaring gender for Aadhaar is problematic not only from a privacy perspective for the transgenger community, but makes them vulnerable to threats, violence and even forced outing.

Lawyer Usha Ramanathan has been one of the most vociferous voices against the Unique Identification Authority of India's Aadhaar project. She represented petitioners in one of the many cases against the UIDAI that the Supreme Court collectively heard arguements this May. At a public talk, hosted by the Centre for Law and Policy Research in Bangalore, Ramanthan spoke about the numerous problematic facets of the biometric-based Aadhaar project. This 5-part series highlights some of those arguments.

Failure of biometric authentication is one of Aadhaar's biggest drawbacks, which has led to denial of benefits and services and even deaths. This failure is something that then UIDAI director general RS Sharma had conceded to in an interview to Frontline magazine in 2011.

Lawyer Usha Ramanathan has been one of the most vociferous voices against the Unique Identification Authority of India's Aadhaar project. She represented petitioners in one of the many cases against the UIDAI that the Supreme Court collectively heard arguements this May. At a public talk, hosted by the Centre for Law and Policy Research in Bangalore, Ramanthan spoke about the numerous problematic facets of the biometric-based Aadhaar project. This 5-part series highlights some of those arguments.

Data is the new oil. And with Aadhaar, it will be possible for the 1% of the rich to use the personally identifiable information of Aadhaar holders to create more wealth for themselves. This is the trickle-up theory.

Lawyer Usha Ramanathan has been one of the most vociferous voices against the Unique Identification Authority of India's Aadhaar project. She represented petitioners in one of the many cases against the UIDAI that the Supreme Court collectively heard arguements this May. At a public talk, hosted by the Centre for Law and Policy Research in Bangalore, Ramanthan spoke about the numerous problematic facets of the biometric-based Aadhaar project. This 5-part series highlights some of those arguments.

The stated goal of UIDAI/Aadhaar is to eliminate ghosts and fakes and deduplicate people. This, it first said, would be done on the basis of biometrics that are unique. But then the UIDAI's internal reports claim that demographic and environmental factors that decide whether biometrics work or not. The Authority then changed the narrative.