{"id":284,"date":"2006-12-11T04:19:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-11T11:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bhagwad.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/asking-for-my-id.html"},"modified":"2006-12-11T04:19:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-11T11:19:00","slug":"asking-for-my-id","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bhagwad.com\/blog\/2006\/rights-and-freedoms\/privacy\/asking-for-my-id.html\/","title":{"rendered":"Asking for my ID"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Today I went to cancel my Airtel connection for my internet. As I&#8217;m leaving the city on the 20th of December, I thought that I&#8217;d settle my accounts with them, and return their modem.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The man behind the desk asks me for my ID. I tell him I can&#8217;t drive, have no voter&#8217;s ID, and can&#8217;t give him my PAN, or my Passport. He was unable to believe that I carried no ID on my whatsoever. He said that without ID, he can&#8217;t allow me to cancel the connection! This was lovely. I told him that regardless of what he said, I was leaving on the 20th, and I didn&#8217;t care a fig about his papers. I was doing the decent thing by canceling my connection, instead of just leaving, and this fellow tells me I can&#8217;t do it! His loss.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I told him there&#8217;s no law that says I have to carry any ID with me, and I don&#8217;t like to carry ID, as I resent having to prove to anyone who I am. After all why should I? This is a free country, and I have committed no crime. No one has any business asking me where I&#8217;m from. He said that without ID I have no proof that I am Bhagwad! I said I don&#8217;t need to prove to anyone that I&#8217;m Bhagwad. I&#8217;m quite secure about my identity without having to &#8216;prove&#8217; it to anyone.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This was quite beyond the gentleman&#8217;s comprehension. Taking pity, I told him that I&#8217;ll try and get an electricity bill at the very least, but I can&#8217;t guarantee it. In the meantime, I&#8217;ll return the modem and pay my last bill. If I can&#8217;t get the electricity bill, I&#8217;m afraid I can&#8217;t do anything. Tough luck.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The experience has shown me in what direction the country is heading. A person can&#8217;t be left alone if he wants. He has to &#8216;prove&#8217; himself with an ID card. Our country is becoming a totalitarian state. 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