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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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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