I have my vote in Mahadevapura constituency in Bengaluru. And like the average Indian who has spent a lifetime collecting, photocopying, attesting (self-attesting now), laminating, scanning, uploading, re-uploading and then still being told “sir, one document is missing”, I approached the ongoing SIR exercise with the enthusiasm of a goat being walked past a butcher shop. Government procedures scare me. Not because I am trying to hide anything. Not because I am not sincere. Not because I don’t keep my papers properly. They scare me because no matter how much I try, there is always something wrong. One document will…
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Aditya Nataraja is a venture capital and investment professional with over two decades of experience across finance, entrepreneurship and public-purpose institutions. Bengaluru has been home all his life. He writes on governance, cities, public systems and social issues, focusing on how policy decisions shape the lives of citizens across India.