Sowmya Rao, who was last in the headlines when she helped coordinate online efforts to help bring relief to the victims of Chennai’s floods, had a question up on her Twitter stream yesterday that is worth some thought:
MPs come in morning, sign, take stipend, leave. Attendance for MPs should be collected, released hourly. Agree?
— Sowmya (@sowmyarao_) March 11, 2016
Seems like a relatively minor thing to get fussed about, no? Consider this story, of the passage of the Aadhaar bill — a bill both Narendra Modi and Arun Jaitley had opposed not so long ago, and still replete with serious privacy concerns — in Parliament yesterday.
And in that story, consider this factoid:
Smoke Signals 