March 2024

DailyPost 2722 OPAQUENESS OF INDIAN DEMOCRACY? The well calibrated and well-orchestrated opaqueness of our democracy is the biggest strength of the ruling elite and by its extension, all stakeholders; direct or indirect. The name of game is to swear by transparency, making it as a cover for black box democracy and black box life of […]

DailyPost 2721 SWISS GOVT HACKED Couple of truisms of the digital world have slowly been emerging which are bound force us think in manner radically different from what we think today. The first one is; Getting hacked is the new normal. The second one today or tomorrow ransomware is bound to hit you. And the

DailyPost 2720 JUDICIAL COOLING OFF PERIOD OR A BAN? The lure of a post retirement job has an impact on the decision making and capability to objectively perform official duties by a bureaucrat, has by now become an accept fact. The visible connection in the large number of cases has made it very conspicuous. What

DailyPost 2719 SUPERANNUATION AND BEYOND! The HR policies of any organization speaks of its health and has a bearing on the culture of the organization. Finally, the organizational culture prevails and this seems to a well accepted fact about the Indian bureaucracy, within and outside. There are HR machines in this world which can transform

DailyPost 2718 “DIGITAL ARREST” Arrests have by far been the hottest topic of the criminal justice system, as perceived by the outside world, it brings the first bout of justice to the victim. What is delivers in the final outcome of the case is another story. The investigation agency can prove that it has teeth,

DailyPost 2717 WARNING BELLS FOR DEMOCRACY – SOURCE CODE TO SOFTWARE What is the level of outcry when one public statement agitates the democratic mind and its feelings? It seems as if the heavens have fallen and doomsday is right there. The democratic cacophony machine from legislatures to the media to the recent social /

DailyPost 2716 THE PEGASUS IMBROGLIO Some mysteries get sorted out over a period of time and some open layer after layer. If it is a spyware, things would be even worse. Spying on spyware cannot be easy. If the business and operations are strictly confidential and at least one party being the government, then how

DailyPost 2715 PUBLIC AUDIT INFRASTRUCTURE Is public audit the need of the hour? Have all the different methodologies of audit and levels of it, been able to deliver a clean, neat and progressive system as is expected out of it. Or is it mostly a financial administration ritual which has to be necessarily gone through?

DailyPost 2714 ROBUST PUBLIC AUDIT MECHANISM The country has a very robust public audit mechanism is what we are made to believe and that is what we feel by our grooming. The basic principles of public audit remain unknown to the most of us, including the best educated and also the practitioners in that field.