Nandan Nilekani is most famous for having been so successful as CEO of one of India’s largest software companies, Infosys. He since left a lot of business-only interests and took a cabinet-level central government position (chair of the Unique Identification Authority of India) as a person who would head the design, implementation, and regulation of a national identification system in India.
Nilekani wrote a book called Imagining India in 2009 and it seemed to me that he had progressive and well-reasoned ideas. I am definitely his fan. The ID system he proposed was to include a card with a huge amount of memory by any American identification standard. It would be an ID, a bank card, something for doing financial transactions, and include fingerprint and optical scans.
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The website is full of ads. Besides the obvious ads to connect me with 1000s of sexy singles in my area and the ad for me to buy a cheap vacation, there is a script in the site to make words link to sales websites. In the picture you can see the word “smart” in the phrase “smart card” is green. If I click on that it takes me to a site which sells bogus online masters degrees. If I click on the word “loans” I go to a website which offers a horrible third-party credit card. If I click on “enjoy” then I get porn.
The English was written by a non-English speaker, which is bizarre because it is so easy to find English speakers in India especially in the computer industry and in top-level government.
I wonder who collects the ad revenue from this? Incredible India!