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  Letters to The Editor — December 3, 2025 Published  - December 03, 2025 12:24 am IST https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/letters/letters-to-the-editor-december-3-2025/article70349693.ece Sanchar Saathi app The rollout of the app is reminiscent of the advent of Pegasus. By dint of the government’s stout denial and the lack of technical proof, Pegasus flew under the radar of public scrutiny, but the spyware is probably out there still, doing its job. Sanchar Saathi is being labelled as a visible regulatory/anti-fraud tool. But the fact is that user consent and autonomy are removed. It has privacy and surveillance risks. There is potential misuse of data, lack of transparency or safeguards, and an infringement on fundamental rights. One has a sense of revisiting George Orwell’s novel, 1984. R. Thomas Paul, Bengaluru  
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  https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/open-page/the-weight-of-the-everyday/article70312371.ece The weight of the everyday  Published  - November 30, 2025 05:36 am IST Muscles are not for vanity; they are what helps one in the cut and thrust of daily life Updated  - December 02, 2025 02:57 am IST THOMAS PAUL   Strength gives you options: to lift, to help, to act — and occasionally, to impress the crowd at the baggage carousel . ILLUSTRATION: SREEJITH R KUMAR You don’t need to know your ‘deltoids’ from your ‘trapezius’ or count calories on a smartwatch to start exercising. Just look around. Every day life throws at us a series of weight-lifting contests disguised as ordinary tasks — and most of us fail them spectacularly. Being out of shape has been your comfort zone. You are at the airport baggage carousel watching your suitcase doing lazy circles on the conveyor belt, coming around for the third time. You are summoning the courage to pull the th...
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  Mind and Body By Thomas Paul "Health? My dear, that's what money is for!" my busy, corporate ladder ascendent friend would quip. “Why worry about  little aches and pains when you have specialist doctors to fix the problem?" He genuinely believed that health was a commodity, something that could be purchased, repaired, or outsourced with enough financial muscle. He represents a large captive clientele for the hospital industry – their reliable revenue stream .  We often speak of "my body," a phrase that suggests absolute ownership and control. We believe our bodies are our personal property, to be used and enjoyed as we see fit. Yet, a closer look at biology and genetics reveals a truth far more profound and humbling: we are not the owners of our bodies. We are merely their temporary custodians, entrusted with a vessel built from a genetic blueprint thousands of millennia in the making. This body, a tapestry woven from the DNA of countless ancestors, is a...
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          https://www.amazon.in/dp/B07NDVVF3Y Product details ASIN ‏ : ‎  B07NDVVF3Y Language ‏ : ‎  English File size ‏ : ‎  3195 KB Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎  Enabled Screen Reader ‏ : ‎  Supported Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎  Enabled X-Ray ‏ : ‎  Not Enabled Word Wise ‏ : ‎  Enabled Print length ‏ : ‎  175 pages It Began as a Simple Love Story  Kindle Edition by  Thomas Paul   (Author)     Format:  Kindle Edition See all formats and editions This is a story about the fascinating interplay of characters who feel that all is fair in love, and skip the rules of fair play. This is the braiding together of six strands of storylines—the intriguing lives of lovelorn people—and the foolhardy things they do for love, each one chasing a dream, trying to grasp what is just out of reach. And they realize their control on unfolding events is short-lived. Their hitherto cozy lives turn unexpectedly turbul...
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  https://www.amazon.in/dp/9395868465                  FIRST STRIKE - Enemy at the Gates                                        Paperback                                                                       15 November 2022                                       by  THOMAS PAUL   ( Author) About the Book Even a deranged chief with his finger on the nuclear button knows no one wins a nuclear war. It is a guaranteed mutually assured destruction. There are other options, however. Doing a Chornobyl in India is a scenario that is playing out in the war rooms across our ...
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Chasing the elusive numbers

  Published in The Hindu Open Page Chasing the elusive numbers  PREMIUM Post the digital revolution, our minds have become fatigued with PINs and transaction pass codes December 03, 2023 12:19 am | Updated 12:19 am IST THOMAS PAUL I read about a standard tactic that the police employ to catch vehicle thieves. A constable hails down a vehicle and asks the driver to tell its registration number. If the driver is the owner, he should be able to readily tell the number. If he is driving a stolen vehicle, it would not have occurred to him to memorise its number. That is a clever tactic, I thought and laughed at its ingenuity. After I was done laughing, I realised that I too could not readily recall my own vehicles’ numbers. Had a policeman stopped me similarly, I could have been in trouble. My memory is like a sieve, so of late, I have taken to periodically self-check if I can recall my own vehicles’ numbers. The numbers conundrum does not end there. There are occasions...
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