How opinions change
In late 2007, I wrote this post about things India needs to do. These, at that time, were my strong views on things that would make a big difference to India. Noteworthy to mention that I was in the US at that time and looking at things from the foreign media lens plus anything local I could get at that time. This is the link to the older blog.. https://indyalogy.blogspot.com/2007/10/what-indya-needs-to-do.html I pointed out in that blog that below three would make a big big difference. Today, I am going to re-visit these and may be able to appreciate the difference in opinion from then (2007) to now (2020). 1. Social Security Number 2. Ban VHP, BJP 3. Adopt Linux Let me address these in order and share my opinion today.... 1. India's version of SSN is Aadhaar . It does not come with a social security like the SSN in the US. But, I meant of SSN as a way to do transactions with government. An identifier for the citizens that they can us to open a bank account, file taxes, trade in s