Pratap Mehta: Democracy in India - Democracy in the World  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5Z43HDB010 Dickey Center for International Understanding  Apr 10, 2023
Pratap Mehta in conversation with Russ Muirhead April 6, 2023.  Full blown tyranny? How did we get there. https://youtu.be/W5Z43HDB010?t=281 Bewilderment . but can say.. RM modi is popular, and so far he has acquired legitamcy through proper electoral means. 2. unlike other right rulers, modi is less incompetent a manager of the economy . it will not face theeconomic  crisis that Left thinks.. Expansion of state capacity which will ensure that there is no brad based economic crisis

Still regime is authoritarian, control information order, Checks and balances in the insitutional strcuture have collapsed.

Fake Aadhaar, PAN Cards a Click Away: Report https://www.moneylife.in/article/fake-aadhaar-pan-cards-a-click-away-report/70495.html 
Moneylife Digital Team 19 April 2023 Culled Electoral Rolls, unverified EVM/VVPAT voting and counting, fake Voter IDs and massive money and media power...  Comment by MGD: Aadhar is now being aggressively linked with Voter ID with the active involvement of ECI... This, despite strong opposition from domain experts and civil society.. Citizens Commission on Elections also took a strong stand against this.. Yet government and ECI bulldozed it through.. Comment by SSen:  This would go against the Supreme Court verdict in the Aadhaar case. I. Supreme Court had mandated linking with Aadhaar compulsorily with PAN
Card and the ITR filed.
II. It's use is mandatory also for availing any welfare scheme of the State. That's all.
It cannot be used compulsorily for any other purpose. Doing otherwise would be an act of violation.

Fake Aadhaar, PAN Cards a Click Away https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/vadodara/fake-aadhaar-pan-cards-a-click-away/articleshow/99504918.cms .. 15th APR 2023  Any person with some basic knowledge of the dark web can easily prepare a fake identity card of anybody using some websites and applications.

Online fraudsters get creative, come up with newer ways to dupe people in Visakhapatnam https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Visakhapatnam/online-fraudsters-get-creative-come-up-with-newer-ways-to-dupe-people-in-visakhapatnam/article66166003.ece  November 22, 2022
The latest being Aadhaar card fraud, in which an accused fabricated an Aadhaar card of the victim without her knowledge, says Police Commissioner

For criminals, Aadhaar is the easiest tool to cheat or dupe anyone, including lenders and individuals. With Aadhaar, anyone can easily get a SIM card, open a bank account, and obtain various things. The reason is there are no real-time checks when one submits Aadhaar as ID proof .. In fact, earlier this month, the Union government admitted that nearly 6%, or more than 60mn (million) dead people, still hold their Aadhaar numbers since there is no provision to delete or deactivate these numbers.   https://moneylife.in/article/nearly-6-crore-dead-people-still-have-aadhaar-numbers-govt/70358.html

RFID surveillance technology used in State  (Meghalaya) for first time  https://highlandpost.com/rfid-surveillance-technology-used-in-state-for-first-time/
Journalists stopped short by their own mug-shots   April 18, 2023 in Meghalaya,

Hi-tech surveillance technology debuted today into this hill state with Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) issued to tag every delegate and visitor including media persons entering the premises of Hotel Courtyard Marriott, here for the two-day Space Economy Leaders Meeting (SELM) precursor event.

Journalists were the first to come uncomfortably face to face with impact of RFID tracking when some of them nonchalantly wandering around the venue in the course of their work, found themselves stopped short by their own mug-shots, name and designation, suddenly appearing on a big monitoring screen at the entrance of the conference hall of the G20 meet, with the legend in bold caps, “NOT ALLOWED” under the photo...the press had already been instructed that they are permitted to enter the conference hall only to cover the inaugural session. They do not have permission to cover the technical session of the meeting...However reporters being reporters, it is routine for them to loiter around the main venue, even if they are not allowed inside, to catch any delegates for a quick comment and/or seek interviews.