Sanjay Sahay

DailyPost 2854 THE OUTAGE! The world comes to a standstill to experience the outage. The Microsoft Outage, created by CrowdStike, two global leaders, criss-crossing countries and continents, making the world realise the weaknesses of nation states. They were in no position to make any difference. From an all paternalistic, all dominating and perversely powerful democratic […]

DailyPost 2853 COURIERED! Courier is a very benign service, which is generally supposed to do no harm, and get your stuff moved from one place to the other, with speed and efficiency. You also have systems to track your parcel, point to point. India is the land of innovation in its own peculiar style. We

DailyPost 2852 EXAM BODIES – DO THEY NEED EXTERNAL AUDIT & LEGISLATIVE OVERSIGHT? It seems to be a hard time for the exam bodies. Today there are any number of ways of whistleblower type information coming out in the public domain. Once out in the public domain, the nature of scrutiny hits the roof; of

DailyPost 2851 PUJA KHEDKAR CASE – IS THERE A DEEPER MALAISE? Presuming everything to be right does not make it right. Is Puja Khedkar case an one off case or is it symptomatic of a deeper malaise, which has hit the system in an extremely surreptitious manner. The peeling off of every layer of this

DailyPost 2850 DATA SILOS TO DATA TOMBS – WHAT WE REALLY DO WITH DATA? We live in a world of high tech and hyper connectivity, a product of the first quarter of the 21st century, with 20th century institutions and enterprises and the mindset of the 19th century. Super tech and super speed is not

DailyPost 2849 SOUTH INDIA’S DATA CENTRE WAVE The transition to the cloud was transformational for businesses as the world got severely impacted by the Covid19 pandemic and there has not been any going back since then. The security fears of the pre-pandemic days have nearly been wiped off. Maintaining your own IT infrastructure has been

DailyPost 2848 BULLDOZER JUSTICE Justice delayed is justice denied is a truism, which people are made to believe does not hold good. Law will take its own course in another truism that is flaunted by the powers that be, when they are caught on the wrong foot, or they have defended some of the wrongdoers

DailyPost 2847 ZERO TOLERANCE – ETERNAL LIP SERVICE Zero tolerance is bandied around as a panacea to all problems or as an escape route when you are caught in tricky situations. When actions don’t act up consistently, then this all purpose tool is put into action. Unfortunately, the media has never asked what it means

DailyPost 2846 POST INCIDENT RESPONSE What do you feel about the quality of post incident response and in the large number of cases handling evolving issues? There are many times, an incident, accident or flare up ends up becoming an evolving issue with no end in sight. If we come up with an hypothesis that

DailyPost 2845 SUSPENDED! Whenever suspension happens one thing is for sure, that it is the culmination of suspended governance for a long time. Like the transfer being weaponized, suspension is often an escape route to get rid of ticklish situations or take action when left with no choice. This is a standard tool in the

DailyPost 2844 TRANSFERRED! You would be reading of transfers in the government over the print, electronic and the social media. The impressions which you would carry is that it is a routine bureaucratic exercise which is benign and objective and is conducted in the interest of administration to provide state of art public service. You