DailyPost 2151 THE PROMISED LAND In fables and mythology, we have heard of the promised lands. Beyond that when reality hits life, society and the nation, the gear change has to be totally different, the current age being no different. But one difference which stands out is the present-day complexity in every aspect / dimension, […]
DailyPost 2144 INDIAN POLITICAL POWER PLAY – VOTE AND FORGET! The political ecosystem created over the years, which can accept anything and everything and an overall democratic mindset to digest, literally weirdest of the democratic moves is the biggest magic of Indian democracy. Large number of these democratic escapades to government formation can crush any
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DailyPost 2140 DEMOCRACY OF FREEBIES! ”We must think about the taxpayers and the national economy. To what extent can the courts regulate given its constitutional limitations?” lamented Supreme Court. Why it so happens that what is so visibly naked to human eye has been missing the attention of the political masters for decades? Is it
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DailyPost 2136 EASE OF JUSTICE Democracy has its own lingo of expressing itself, one comes out of the legal / constitutional fold and other what appeals to the masses. Something that catches their imagination, they can cling on to. Something that promises a better future, even when they are not very optimistic of it happening.
DailyPost 2112 MISUSE, CRIMINALITY, CRIME, AND CRIMINAL NARRATIVE! Democracy is all about thin lines of demarcations, which initially looks too flimsy, that breaking it would not make any difference, but over a period of time, if reaches a level, to become the main narrative. That is what democratic conventions, mindset, and tradition is all about.
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DailyPost 2106 DESTINATION DEMOCRACY! Democracy has an uncanny knack of reflecting the society, it is from where all the practitioners come from. Democracy was a very frugal practice to start with and all the practitioners mainly worked in their home areas or the areas they represented at the very best. A trip even to the
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DailyPost 2101 INDIAN DEMOCRACY’S NEW NORMAL There are any number of indicators of the health of Indian democracy and every single time we find a sharp decline qualitatively, in each of these indicators. It can start from the quality of debates in our legislatures, mere attendance being a big thing, time taken for passage of
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DailyPost 2098 DEFECTION AND POWER Legislators who would not have battled an eyelid to vote in favor or against any bill, as per the diktats of the party, on the floor of house, are today indulging in discussion regarding the constitutional legality of their acts. This is the magic defection can do to you. Constitutional
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DailyPost 2095 TRYST WITH DEMOCRATIC LEADERS! ”At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.” As uttered by Jawaharlal Nehru, India awoke to independence and democracy. But more than seven plus decades of independence, the tryst has been with the democratic leaders, rather than with anything
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DailyPost 2089 GROWTH OF DEMOCRACY – TO CONSOLIDATE OR FIDDLE? Democracy quite contrary to the accepted thought process does not live in the laws, pillars of the state, fourth estate, the high and lofty institutions, the structured processes and above all the human beings who adorn the constitutional positions. All these are available in democracies
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DailyPost 2088 HAS CURRENT POLITICAL TERMINOLOGY IMPACTED DEMOCRACY? Political terminology is the sum total words, phrases, double edged and deviatory expressions, beating below the belt utterances and the associated tone, tenor, pitch and the audacity it manifests both in oral and written communication. The two modes of communication get enmeshed in social media, where the
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