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The Wounds That Won’t Heal — The Memories That Won’t Fade

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Photo by Erwan Hesry on  Unsplash You try and try and try To forget that one person Get busy with work Start running, go gymming Learn that new thing, meet strangers Sleep with people your heart would not Do all things to take your mind away Away from all the memories of a past Of a life you thought you had left behind Moments you thought you had buried deep inside Everything you thought was all over But One day like a river storming through floodgates You open up Open up with old wounds That you long thought were healed and dried What did you do oh sweet child of summer? What did you do to me?

Many IT companies And Other Industries Are Saying 'Aadhaar Is Mandatory For Availing Provident Fund' But Is It? - Here's What An RTI Reply From EPFO Said

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Recently I received a joining letter from a reputed IT company of India which has its headquarters in Bengaluru (or Bangalore). There wasn't much to the joining letter except mentioning Aadhaar card as the mandatory document for onboarding. Now for people living under rocks, Aadhaar card is a new identity card issued by the government of India that captures not just your name, address, and photograph but also biometric information like fingerprints and iris scanning. Every Indian already owns one or the other existing identity cards that up to this time were all that was required, but for some reasons all-of-a-sudden they have all been pushed to corners in a new world where Aadhaar has taken center stage. I have never understood the purpose of Aadhaar or the problem that it resolves or what was it that existing identity cards didn't solve which Aadhaar can; except of course the behemoth of a tool called surveillance that Aadhaar can so easily accomplish for corporates and g