October 2023

DailyPost 2581 EDITORLESS INDIA India and the world have been impacted by editors of the print media in a big way, when print media ruled the roost. To say that the days of print media are over might not be true, but very rarely we hear of iconic editors. There are editors today in the […]

DailyPost 2580 FEUDAL DEMOCRACY However much we make claims of our democracy being completely in tune with democratic principles of liberty, equality and fraternity, yet the fact of the matter is that we have barely implanted the democratic superstructure on our prevailing infrastructure; creaky, obscurantist, non-modern and semi-capitalist. The crazy match making with no effort

DailyPost 2579 DOES PRIVACY EXIST IN INDIA? This very question can raise an alarm, or it can lead to you into thinking what is the legal situation? What does it mean in real life? Is privacy threatened in any manner in this country or worse still, does it exist all? We have been hearing of

DailyPost 2578 GYAN ONLY FROM THE PRACTITIONER With the advent of the social media knowledge or gyan as we call is on public display, source unknown, processing unknown, zero responsibility and yet it is hitting the world way better than best sourced, best narrated and equally well presented and digestible knowledge. That people have lost

DailyPost 2577 TO DO OR TO ADVERSTISE In the world where sale and purchase are the name of the game, gimmicks to promoting sale cannot be far behind. Trading as a back-end activity never comes to the public domain but rules the roost in the world business. Trades and tradesmen have called the shots for

DailyPost 2576 PERSONAL DATA PRIVACY & OPEN GOVT. DATA The world revolves around data is a proven fact of the modern world, even when you are not using data even for any worthwhile purpose. While the country keeps talking about technology and now artificial intelligence ad nauseum the reality is otherwise. India remains a country

DailyPost 2575 BUSINESS SANS BUSINESS CULTURE In the land of the Jugaad, it is only limited to finding a way out to workable solutions, it also pervades into every aspect of our society and existence. It has been ingrained into our culture. In simple terms it means a short cut to things which have to

DailyPost 2574 ELECTION CESS OR SURCHARGE The most essential cess, tax or surcharge which the country needs immediately is related to meeting the expenses incurred during elections by politicians and political parties. Indians have been accustomed to paying 2% of cess for a variety of reasons and there has never been a murmur. The taxed

DailyPost 2573 POSTS, POSTINGS & SUPERFLOUS GOVERNANCE In the din, clamour of posts and postings, locations of power and the proximity to it, how much can you project to live in reflected glory of the post, or closeness to power, and the influence you wield and seem to wield, covers the complete mind space of

DailyPost 2572 ELECTION PLANNING What is election planning? It is certainly 8way more intriguing8 than democracy and much more complex than the governance of this country. While it is practiced with utmost vigor, day in day out, by single politician and every political party, yet it is nowhere mentioned in the democratic parlance of the

DailyPost 2571 IS INDUSTRY 4.0 ALL PERVASIVE? We have never talked of industrial revolutions limited to the creation and transformation of industry, but always deliberated on the all-pervasive impact it had for the world. Most of it has been positive and some for sure have been negative. Growth trajectory of a kind mankind gleefully lapped