DailyPost 1582 IF YOU COME THROUGH FAVOURS… If you come through favours, you can only give favours. This is the adage which has been the defining Indian public life for quite sometime. Public life by its very nature extrapolates into large number of areas, governance and businesses being the first victims. This is very visible […]
DailyPost 1581 RESEARCHING THE RESEARCH We have been in this arena from times immemorial and would continue to remain in it, till the cows come home? Research has become a standard vertical of any organisation, more so an academic one. What does research aspire to deliver, before we start researching the research in this country.
DailyPost 1580 PROJECT INTEROPERABILITY Interoperability by consensus can completely revolutionise the digital world and take the life of each one of us to a totally different seamless level. How will that interoperability happen is a trillion dollar question? Will it happen or is it just a mirage which is being marketed? The current business and
DailyPost 1579 THE DEGREE PERFORMANCE CONNECT The world requires degrees, though some change is taking place yet it remains the final benchmark. If the degrees could deliver, we would have been a totally different country by now. If you were given an opportunity to differentiate between a person with a graduate degree and one with
DailyPost 1578 THE ELUSIVE NEWS Finding a needle in the haystack would be simpler than finding news in this country. The messenger declared himself more important than the message and over a period of time he became the message himself. This is news in India today. Think of a situation where in yesteryears Doordarshan would
DailyPost 1577 THE BLUE EYED BOYS The blue eyed boys have been a integral part of the ecosystem, wherever we work and in whatever we do. This has nothing to do with blue blood related to the royal families by any chance. They find their own by hard work or intelligence or even networking and
DailyPost 1576 BIG ADVISORY ECOSYSTEM In a recent startup virtual event, what has been lamented by one of the award winners is that this country does not have a Big Advisory Ecosystem. For sure this is a reality and anybody getting on the entrepreneurial journey would feel it’s pinch. Given the nature of push given
DailyPost 1575 A LAND OF FIXERS India lives in the cycle of fixers inflection points and fixers winters. Inflection points are when it comes to the fore in a big way, starts looking all pervasive and the winter is when it is supposedly dormant. The general feeling we start getting in the fixers winter is
DailyPost 1574 AUDACIOUS PUBLIC CHEATING What is the gap between what we profess and what we do? What is the gamut of difference between our public stance and our personal stance? How many of the personas in the public domain sermon industry are qualified to be there? Is there any connect between the audacious positioning
DailyPost 1573 PERSONAL BATTLES Indians have the innate capability of bringing down every battle to the personal level and then it becomes extremely easy to explain the nuances of the issue in your favour. When the battle is perforce translated into a personal one, the issues of objectivity, rationale and logic takes a back seat.
DailyPost 1572 PHISHING IN IGNORANCE Digital literacy in not only the capability to use worldly tech tools but also the capability to safeguard oneself from the marauders of the cyber world. This is generally believed to the be specialised work of the cyber security professionals, when in reality everybody is at risk and each one
