August 2024

DailyPost 2886 ENT SURGEON DUPED OF 9 CRORES Is the increase in cyber crime / scam directly proportional to gullibility of the victims, in a way general masses? Is lack of knowledge and processes going against them? Or is it super greed in quite a few cases? It can be any one of these or […]

DailyPost 2885 THE HAMILTON STORY – WHAT A HACK COSTS TO THE VICTIM Just show the prospect of a project to an IT company and then see the pace with which they get in commercial rigmarole of effort and time, the level of expert resources to be deployed, timelines and finally the costing. The costing

DailyPost 2884 CHANGE HEALTHCARE THOROUGHLY HACKED! The more we change the less we do. Nothing much has changed. This is precisely the case in cyber security, even in an age where truism is ‘Getting hacked is the new normal’. Simultaneously, the battle for reclaiming personally identifiable data, PII, is raging. There are quite a few

DailyPost 2883 WHERE ARE OUR ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES? When have you last met your elected representative? If you ever have. When has he visited you last? Or visited your area or your professional group or addressed any issue of the community? The simple question is, have you been impacted in any way by your elected representatives?

DailyPost 2882 POLITICAL POLICING The recent rape and murder of the a Kolkata medico has again thrown the spotlight on the nature of policing and governance happening in most parts of the country. A step further, what do you make out of the nature of investigation done in this case, till the time it was

DailyPost 2881 RECLAIMING SECURITY… Has insecurity for the common man has become a foregone conclusion in this country. Have PG accommodations, to college campuses to hospitals to coaching centers and any number of other locations become so insecure that the criminals operate with unprecedented impunity? Then we have the normal rigmarole of protests demanding justice

DailyPost 2780 ASSURANCES INC. If something sells thick and fast in this country then it is an assurance. It is the hottest circulating currency of the ruling elite; the political class, political executive, permanent executive and any organization or person who has any capability to make a change. That nearly all the assurances have been

DailyPost 2879 CRIMES WAITING TO HAPPEN… The general tenor of conversation, narratives and debates are in favour of the fact that crimes can happen anywhere, what is more critical is the response of the authorities to it. Top quality investigation and conviction. The same logic in now on in the Kolkata medico rape and murder

DailyPost 2878 DEMOCRATIC FEUDALISM The onset of democracy on 15th of August, 1947, was a watershed moment in the history of India. What is expected in such momentous times is that the country would transform beyond recognition. Transformation of physical infrastructure is the easiest to happen, whatever great stories we might build around it. The

DailyPost 2877 THE EPITOME OF DISCRETION People who have experienced lives where delivery in entirety has been the touchstone, would scarcely believe that widespread discretion can ever be properly used. Discretion as a mass scale of gigantic scale is inversely proportional to delivery and success and more so of development and growth, leave aside the

DailyPost 2876 THE LAND OF THE LAW… While we refer to law, we call it the law of the land. It is also often repeated that law will take its own course. This presupposes law as a tool for delivery of justice, created with utmost objectivity and administered with only that objectivity in mind. Law