Usha Ramanathan works on the jurisprudence of law, poverty and rights. She writes and speaks on issues that include the nature of law, the Bhopal Gas Disaster, mass displacement, eminent domain, civil liberties including the death penalty, beggary, criminal law, custodial institutions, the environment, and the judicial process. She has been tracking and engaging with the UID project and has written and debated extensively on the subject. In July-September 2013, she wrote a 19-part series on the UID project that was published in The Statesman, a national daily.

Her work draws heavily upon non-governmental experience in its encounters with the state; a 6 year stint with a law journal (Supreme Court Cases) as reporter from the Supreme Court; and engagement with matters of law and public policy.

She was a member of: the Expert Group on Privacy set up by the Planning Commission of India which gave in its report in October 2012; a committee (2013-14) set up in the Department of Biotechnology to review the Draft Human DNA Profiling Bill 2012; and the Committee set up by the Prime Minister's Office (2013-14) to study the socio-economic status of tribal communities which gave its report to the government in 2014.

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19 - UID: Questions without answers a talk by Usha Ramanathan



UID: Questions without answers a talk by Usha Ramanathan


Concern Presents :-

UID: Questions without answers
a talk by Usha Ramanathan

Date : Tuesday , 6th September 2011
Time : 6:15 PM
Venue : Materials Engineering Lecture theater,
IISc Bangalore

ABOUT THE TALK:
Several questions plague the UID project: about markers of identity, exclusion, convergence, surveillance, privacy, the certainty of biometrics, the companies involved, personal security, national security, technological determinism, the lawlessness of the project.

These have been met with resounding silence. Voluntary? Not any more. Limited protocol of information? Not any more. No sharing of information, only a yes or no answer? Not any more. This talk will be a discussion about what we do about questions that do not succeed in eliciting answers.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER :
Usha Ramanathan is an independent law researcher. She has devoted her attention to a number of specific issues such as the Bhopal gas disaster, the Narmada valley dams, slum eviction in Delhi, corporate accountability and lately the proposed UID, its implications for freedom and rights.
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