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Enrollment: Digital Identity, Surveillance, and the Erosion of Choice

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The year 2026 marked a decisive turning point in global governance when India, the European Union, and the United States jointly launched the Global Digital Identity Accord (GDIA) — an ambitious initiative marketed as “One Login for Humanity.” Built on the promise of seamless access to welfare, education, healthcare, and financial systems, the GDIA aimed to unify fragmented databases into one universal identity layer. Yet, beneath the sleek language of technological progress lay profound ethical concerns. The Enrollment reveals the human tension between a digital utopia envisioned by global institutions and the lived reality of individuals forced into systems they never chose. Through the experience of Mira Das, an ordinary teacher who refuses the new identity infrastructure, the story becomes a lens to examine the rise of the total surveillance grid and the fading meaning of consent in an algorithmic world. 1. The Announcement A. Perspective 1 — Mira Das (Citizen side): It...
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Sky Trap: China’s Orbital War Against Indian Secrets

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In the evolving arena of 21st-century warfare, dominance is no longer confined to land, sea, or air—space has emerged as the ultimate high ground. Nations equipped with powerful satellite constellations wield unmatched strategic capabilities, not only for communication or navigation, but more critically, for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR). Among global powers, China has rapidly transformed its space assets into a formidable orbital surveillance network, capable of conducting persistent, multi-layered espionage. Nowhere is this capability more visible—and more consequential—than in its silent, unrelenting monitoring of India’s military infrastructure. 1. Over the Border, Beyond the Sky As dawn crept across the Himalayan ridges into northern India, a constellation of Chinese military satellites was already hard at work—watching, listening, recording. From hundreds of kilometers above, these machines mapped every flicker of activity across India’s critica...
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