Daily Post 1405 A MEDIA SPECTACLE Every single activity, crucial and critical to human existence, for orderly functioning of society, governance and even personal life have fallen down and become a part of the gallery of media spectacle. There are no rules in this game, no code of conduct, no exemptions, no restrictions on the […]
Daily Post 1404 INVESTIGATION AND THE MEDIA That investigative journalism has been given a quiet burial would be stating the obvious. When a crime opens the vistas of conjecture, the media is at its best, getting on its bandwagon and make a super success out of it – the TRP and the consequential advertising revenue.
Daily Post 1403 TO TRUST OR NOT TO TRUST The Antitrust hearing with CEOs from Amazon, Facebook, Google and Apple will go down in the annals of capitalism as the first concerted effort by the US Congress to rein in the IT behemoths, who have running what co-jointly can be called the creative global monopolies.
Daily Post 1402 SELECTIVE IN INVOKING LAW All are equal before law, the famed rule of law, due process et al will only make sense when there is no selective invocation of law. It will only make sense if we have depth of machinery to implement all laws of the land. A functional, dynamic, realtime
Daily Post 1401 SEQUOIA INDIA SURGE Finding a method in the madness and making it happen through expertise, end to end is the promise of this project. Something of this nature might have been in the wings for quite sometime in the quagmire of funding. Same as the exponential increase in their numbers, on the
Daily Post 1400 DISTRACTED LEADERSHIP For the first time in the history of this country, every single Indian has been gripped with fear. More than the disease itself, it has broken down the mental psyche. The economic backlash has made things unbearable. The different levels of breakdown of medical infrastructure in different areas is one
Daily Post 1399 MY TASK IS MY BOSS Nature and variety of bosses keep changing from time to time and as long as there is one, there is one in a thousandth chance, that you will be a satisfied subordinate. The goals and targets would be pushed down your throat and you will keep gasping
Daily Post 1398 MULTISIDED PLATFORMS The term would seem new to the uninitiated, to the world of multifarious usage of technology / data in transforming the post Industrial Revolution business models of the world. The land, labour, capital, organisation story ending in products and services and making a profit out of it. What a new
Daily Post 1397 RESPECTED FOR WHATEVER THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO DO Think of any position, official or professional distinction, a celebrity, recipients of celebrated honours, academic degrees et al, the respect it generates as a natural response in you is for whatever they are supposed to be and not for what they actually do. That
Daily Post 1396 LOCKDOWN – A BALANCING ACT From the days of the book titled Asian Drama published more than 50 years back, soft state has been the best way to describe governance in South Asian countries. Procrastination has been the name of the game. Political parties may come and go, but the governance remains
Daily Post 1395 GOVERNANCE BY DENIAL From dictatorial regimes to the communists, control over dissemination of information was main tool of governmental control. What is not known does not exist. The creation of information naturally then happens in the manner required by the powers that be. They are the only consumers and service providers of
