# Usha Ramanathan

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S02E01 Usha Ramanathan on India, Land and Accountabilty

Usha Ramanathan lives in New Delhi, India, where she works on the jurisprudence of law, poverty and rights.

MONEY REIMAGINED: A ‘Best of’ Holiday Special of 2021 - India’s Digital Identity System

This episode is sponsored by Quantstamp, Nexo.io and KuCoin.  For the last day for 2021 and the end of a two-week break for Money Reimagined, we’re serving up the second of two of our favorite episodes from the past year.  Michael Casey’s pick was the episode from Sept. 15, not because that’s his b…

A ‘Best of’ Holiday Special of 2021: India’s Digital Identity System

This episode is sponsored by Quantstamp, Nexo.io and KuCoin.  For the last day for 2021 and the end of a two-week break for Money Reimagined, we’re serving up the second of two of our favorite episodes from the past year.  Michael Casey’s pick was the episode from Sept. 15, not because that’s his b…

Seizing mobile phones has become part of routine policing, here is why it needs to change

From Hyderabad police snatching phones on streets to check for ‘ganja’ to Delhi police seizing journalist Mohammed Zubair’s devices for a tweet, such seizures have become a routine part of policing. After all, with modern technology, our personal devices have become repositories of our whole lives.…

40 years later: what are the lessons from the Bhopal gas disaster?

40 years since the Bhopal gas disasters, which killed thousands and injured millions more, what have been the lessons for corporate accountability? IHRB’s Salil Tripathi speaks to survivor, Tahira Sultan, as well as Dr Usha Ramanathan,  a human rights and legal scholar who has studied and worked on…

Understanding the concerns over EPIC-Aadhaar linkage

On March 18, 2025, the Election Commission of India announced that its officials will hold talks with UIDAI experts for linking the Electoral Photo Identity Cards (EPIC) with Aadhaar.  This linking is supposed to be voluntary, but there is some confusion as to whether the voter will really have any…

The Vaporstate: ID in India

Our first exploration of The Vaporstate takes us to India, home of Aadhaar: a mammoth digitisation project that charts a path from technical solution for public service delivery, through mission creep and popular opposition, to a knotty but inescapable part of Indian existence today. More like this…

Lingo Bingo at the India AI Summit w/ Meredith Whittaker, Audrey Tang, Abeba Birhane, and Usha Ramanathan

It’s our second week of playing AI lingo bingo. The summit in India is underway and the air is thick with vague terms that fail to describe the big problems. More like this: Lingo Bingo at the India AI Summit w/ Karen Hao, Joan Kinyua, Chenai Chair, and Rafael Grohmann With us this week to discuss …

Lingo Bingo at the India AI Summit w/ Naomi Klein, Timnit Gebru, Nikhil Dey, and Chinasa Okolo

This is the last of our series AI Lingo Bingo Series! We dig into four more co-opted concepts with four more all stars. More like this: Last week’s episode with Meredith Whittaker, Audrey Tang, Abeba Birhane, and Usha Ramanathan This week we’ll hear from Naomi Klein, who will discuss how ‘AI for Cl…

Ep 21: Do we care about poverty? | Usha Ramanathan on the law, the state, and people in poverty

Usha Ramanathan believes that we have failed people in poverty. The state has systematically constructed them as illegal: encroachers, beggars, vagrants and defaulters, and we, the citizens, have looked away. But should we trade liberty for the sake of the poor? Haven't liberalized markets lifted m…