A rise in payment frauds and recent government flip-flops have highlighted what is going wrong with the way the Aadhaar system is working – or not working – in India. Journalists Advait Rao Palepu and Ashwin Manikandan, together with cyber-technology researcher Srinivas Kodali of the Free Software Movement of India, discuss the design problems and the government's failures to check growing frauds and misuse of the Aadhaar card system, in an exclusive discussion for NewsClick.