September 2023

DailyPost 2550 EXECUTIVE IMMUNITY What does the term executive immunity mean? It is not mentioned in any of the legal statute, but is practiced with total impunity, day in and day out. It eats into the vitals of the system and is at the core of basic sense of distrust in the executive. Executive immunity […]

DailyPost 2549 LEGISLATIVE BUSINESS The legislatures should be known by the quality of legislative business they transact. This is a very common expectation of the electorate. That is not the norm is also a well-accepted fact. Conversely, it’s the least known fact, which should have been the truism of every democracy by now. Does quality

DailyPost 2548 THE MEDIA STORY The biggest media story of recent times, has been The Media Story. Media has been the most studied organization; what it does, how it does, why it does, do they any commitment to any cause and lastly, are they as commercial and biased as any other organization. Unfortunately, there are

DailyPost 2547 INDIA – FOURTH ESTATE’S CENTER OF EXCELLENCE From the Indian Express of the emergency days to editor in chiefs of fame, whose editorials we drooled over in college days, to India Today coming out of nowhere and establishing itself, to NDTV a little later, simultaneously creating a niche for itself in a short

DailyPost 2546 WHAT IS ELECTION EXPENDITURE? Of the people who still remember the conduct of elections in the pre-Seshan days, would not dare to imagine what the elections could have been like today, had that watershed in election history not happened. It was a free for all. From the general studies books, the Chief Election

DailyPost 2545 INTEGRITY CERTIFIED! Government provides legal sanctity, validation and authentication from your identity to various aspects of your existence. This is a critical governmental function and provide the basic nuts and bolts of governance to the country. What better than being certified by a sovereign state or agencies of it, specialized in those official

DailyPost 2544 HAS HONESTY LOST CREDIBILITY? This is biggest damage that can happen to nation, nation building and national culture and that seems to have happened. When corruption becomes situational, honesty is bound to lose credibility. When the citizens are barely able to point with conviction towards an honest organization which is for sure honest

DailyPost 2543 AND NOW CLOUD HELD HOSTAGE! Ransomware has hit the cloud. While a large number of countries busy enacting archaic laws with little or no capability of either prevention, enforcement or investigation, the hackers are as usual on a winning spree. Putting your head in the sand does not improve your stand, has never

DailyPost 2542 CYBER SECURITY RESEARCHERS ARE TARGETS! Cyber security researchers being targets themselves would certainly be an eyeopener for the world, which keeps on patting itself, as if some bland laws and ineffective investigation would change anything. We live in a cyber ripped world where ignorance has for the first time become real bliss. A

DailyPost 2541 RELENTLESSLY SUCCESSFUL! Relentlessly successful can be defined as the mindset, which has beset Indians at least in the last decade or two. This game is not played in the public exams or the famed competitive exams or other such renowned bodies whose testing, evaluation and certification remains beyond doubt. Any success that is

DailyPost 2540 ISRAELI HOSPITAL HACKED AIIMS cyber-attack has not been too old to forget. Only two days back we have discussed IBM Security’s ‘The Cost of a Breach’ report 2023, its findings clearly indicate that the health care sector is top on the target of the hackers worldwide. Suffice to say, Israel has proved to