Author name: WebZeal Online

Fingerprints   Fingerprints are our unique identifiers — the thing that makes us us. They’re also used by bureaucracies and systems to identify, sort and systematise populations. In a modern life — fingerprints have become part of the personal data we relinquish ownership through. Synchronised with our phone numbers, addresses, tax records and other data, our fingerprints created by our most recent class took on their own lives, as metaphors labyrinthine state bureaucracies, for individual acts of statehood within the societal collective, and spaces to reclaim who we are and wish to be.

Dreams of the machine: the creative lives of the bureaucracy How many Indian lawyers and judges started out being kids who just liked novels… and who wrote their literary masterpieces in the form of contracts, judicial filings, judgments? How many of our Nobel laureates are languishing in government offices? Is it possible that the little human parts that make up the faceless machinery of Indian bureaucracy are still contain creative spirits just need tending to?