DailyPost 281 JARGON Jargon is quite liberally used to express what the general reader doesn’t want understand, sometimes not even try to understand and at times to demean the writing of an individual of being unworthy of reading. Quite often, the use of supposedly sophisticated language is also termed so. Literally, it means, use […]
DailyPost 280 SELF ACTUALIZATION Since the Maslow’s theory came in vogue, the narrative of human needs have followed on those lines & quite rightly so. There seems to be no debate on the first four needs from the physiological to the esteem, the grey area is the self actualization need. In simple terms it’s
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DailyPost 279 DOCTORS’ DAY The National Doctors’ Day is celebrated to express our gratitude to the contributions of the Doctors to individual lives & in the process the health of the community. They are the healers. They are the Gods on earth taking care of our pain & suffering & consequently life. The health
DailyPost 278 PROGRAMMED FOR MEDIOCRITY Though the buzzwords of innovation, creativity & out of the box thinking is being flaunted with with consistent regularity, yet the products of professional, personal & academic use are creating one of its kind mediocrity, unimaginable even a decade ago. Professional life has generally been restricted to a couple of
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DailyPost 277 KNOWLEDGE CONSOLIDATION If you were to take a call on the total volume of knowledge imparted to you, on an incremental manner and what you possess today, the enormity of the loss, can take you aback. The loss of knowledge is a loss we are not even in a position to calculate. The
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DailyPost 276 ANOTHER CYBER ONSLAUGHT As hacking of American democracy was hotting up, another Cyber Onslaught has send the world in a tizzy, close on the heels of WannaCry. No lessons learned is the feeling which all of us have based on our experience. Do we have to keep facing the Cyber Onslaught for
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DailyPost 275 PUBLIC INTELLECTUALS Public Intellectuals are not a known breed in India, for most of have not heard of them in our living memory. They have a stabilising influence on the society, economy & polity of the nation and also the communities they emerge from. Most of them have a contrarian point of
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DailyPost 274 SOFTWARE – An Interdisciplinary Approach Software is a unique, complex & evolving product, created by a skill combination of domain & technology. It is becoming impossible to factor in everything. The functionalities are falling in the crevices & security throwing up wide open cracks. Lots to learn from the interdisciplinary world for
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DailyPost 273 KNOWLEDGE SHOULD BE PASSED ON Socrates taught Plato; Plato taught Aristotle; Aristotle taught Alexander the Great. Knowledge, if not passed, would have long been extinct. Passing on knowledge to the next generation is our bounden duty. Society in some way is responsible for the creation of that knowledge. This activity has be
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DailyPost 272 THE LID IS OFF – The Washington Post The Washington Post has taken off the lid on the vaguely known saga of the Russians trying to manipulate the American election process propelled by a killing desire to sabotage Hillary Clinton’s ascendency to Presidency. Though the news has been making rounds for quite
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DailyPost 271 PRACTITIONERS ALL, PRACTISING NONE? All of us love to be called practitioners rather than arm chair theoreticians. The reality is, we are getting closer to the theoretician, that too not the best ones. A practitioner ought to be a professional & vice versa. The professional has two basic traits; one he works
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