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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DailyPost 2087 DEMOCRATIC PAUSE! The robustness of a democracy comes out, of its checks and balances, strong enough to face any onslaught and keep going strong. You can call it resilience, which besides being having the ability to bounce back in no time, it continues to have the resonance with the people, even if there
DailyPost 2080 WHOSE SPOKESPERSONS, ARE THEY? In today’s day and age of media, having a spokesperson certainly makes sense, and organizations after organizations keep professionals coming from media and mass communication background or groom their own officials into becoming one, from those who have a penchant for communication. People coming from the media background are
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DailyPost 2077 CRIMINAL CASES AND POLITICAL PREFERENCES Every political party has an ideology or it is supposed to have one. This is the raison d’etre of their existence. In the democratic fold, within the perimeters of the well-established constitutional framework, what political differentiation can the parties provide? From the so- called left to the so-
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DailyPost 2075 UNFAIR PEOPLE, FAIR SYSTEM? The vision of unfair people to create a fair system can be termed as the height of altruism. It is something like the political parties which abhor intra-party democracy, trying to be the harbingers of ushering in vibrant and robust democracy in the country. It is akin to people
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DailyPost 2061 TIME TO PRAY When you hardly find anybody announcing that justice has been do him without any effort and opportunities were made to come his way, what was due to him, somewhere the system has fairly and squarely failed. Fair play is accepted as the general norm, and then things should keep happening
DailyPost 2060 INDIA OF 2022 – CRIME, CALLOUSNESS, CONNIVANCE, APATHY AND VENOM What we have visualized of India 2022 five years back say in 2017 and the way it is unfolding today, are two different worlds. The upbeat story leading to doing away with the useless, negative, and detrimental components of our conventional and entrenched
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DailyPost 2058 MONETISED DEMOCRACY! While Seshan tried his best to bring sanity into election expenditure mayhem in this country, demonetization also was in a way a decisive step to bring in accountability into election spending, besides lots of other reasons. That the democracy of the country is completely politicized is known to one and all,
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