And Aadhaar lived happily ever after…

The book is filled with irrelevant gossip about Mr Nilekani's Delhi stint and fails to further critical understanding on Aadhaar

The Aadhaar Effect

N S Ramnath & Charles Assisi 

Oxford University Press 

279 pages 

Rs 595

If N S Ramnath and Charles Assisi’s book were to be re-imagined as an Amar Chitra Katha tale, it would read as follows:

In a rich kingdom of poor subjects, a noble prince wanted to identify the faceless beneficiaries of his administration’s largesse. His subjects were given 100 days of work every year when there was no work anywhere. The prince’s council ensured nobody went to bed hungry when no food was to be found. The prince wanted to unmask the faceless destitute who would continue to patronise