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This installment is called Doomed to Repeat.

All you're going to need to enroll is going to be, you know, you're going to take a photograph,

you're going to give a thumb print, you're going to do a retinal scan and then you are now enrolled

in the program.

Mira Waits is a historian who studies the art and architecture of colonial South Asia.

So no, she's not talking about Donald Trump's plan for the American patriotic biometric database of the future.

She's telling us about a biometric database that already exists in India called Adhar.

This exchange of biometric data gives you this number that then is sort of your gateway to so much that India has to offer.

People who don't have sort of voter registration cards or ID cards in the more

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