If Hanuman can be issued a Unique ID, why hold back a bank account?

That Bhagwan Hanuman himself had apparently applied for an Aadhaar card clearly did not bewilder the intrepid implementers of the unique identity project. No matter how divine or omnipotent, even deities seeking to be enrolled are all part of a day’s work for those engaged in this project of national importance, it seems. More so if those involved in the data collection are unaware of godly genealogies. That is why Hanuman s/o Pawan would not ring any bells, temple or otherwise. Nor would they ever entertain the thought, obviously, that someone could be having a chuckle at their expense.

Coming as this does soon after some mere mortals receiving their Aadhaar cards prefixed with choice expletives suggests that the people involved in the project are not exercising their grey cells but only their inputting skills.

Indeed, had a postman with a better knowledge of devotional lore not sensed that the Shri Hanuman on the Aadhaar card he was charged to deliver was not a local wrestling hero, the prank would have gone unnoticed. The card would have probably been returned to the UID offices with a ‘recipient untraceable’ tag, which in itself is a rather correct assumption.

A list of unlikely applicants — such as, say, Barack Obama s/o Barack Obama Sr — may need to be distributed to all data-collecting units forthwith.