DailyPost 1662 A WELFARE STATE The best way to describe the Indian state is a welfare state. Welfare in normal parlance means that the government takes care of the poor and the needy. The constitution, the laws and the government machinery is at the backend. The poor and needy by the acts, attitude and response of […]
DailyPost 1661 IF YOU CAN’T DECIDE… If you can’t decide, you should not govern. If you don’t know what you are deciding on, you should not govern. If you don’t know the implementation / execution mechanism, you should not govern. If you can’t follow through the decision, you should not govern. If you cannot get the
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DailyPost 1660 POLITICAL INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY One tea seller used missed calls for taking his orders, there would be tons of other innovative methods using the technology. Given the COVID-19 times, technology has become our mainstay. There has been a push towards information technology in the government over the last decade or so or even earlier.
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DailyPost 1659 IF LOCKDOWN IS NOT… Lockdown is not an answer is bandied around all over the media, then what is the answer. This is in the context of the second avoidable COVID surge, we have been put into. What is the answer then? Why was the answer / solution not made known to the
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DailyPost 1658 A MENTAL LOCKDOWN A mental lockdown is what we have been in for a very long time. We are lucky that it has become so evident during the COVID-19 times, getting doubly authenticated in the second surge. No one knows that this would be the last one. No one also knows that COVID-19 would
DailyPost 1657 OF VISIONARIES & SINGHAMS India is an extremely plentiful land till the time you don’t have to make any effort. If effort comes into consideration, even best of the payments and congenial working atmosphere cannot give you more than a handful. Social media with all its filters and zero objective third party feedback
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DailyPost 1656 FEDERAL CHAOS Dr. B R Ambedkar preferred the phrase ‘Union of States’ in place of Federation for two reasons; firstly, unlike US, the Federation here is not as a result of an agreement between states and secondly, the states have no right to secede from the Union. Thus, the Indian state has both
DailyPost 1655 LOCKDOWN IS NOT A BAD WORD! All gains this country made last year were because of early lockdown. We did not end up in a furnace as it all started. The horrifying stories of Italy, Western Europe and New York could send chills down anybody’s spine. We created that elbow space which we could
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DailyPost 1653 THE WITHERING OF THE STATE! Gunnar Myrdal in his book the Asian Drama came with the political concept of the Soft State, where the governance of the countries did have the guts and gumption to decide on issues in the real interest of the nation and its population. A very dangerous trend one would
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DailyPost 1652 DEBASED POLITICAL DISCOURSE An accident, an injury, foul language, slanderous proclamations, contesting on a second seat, declaring landslide victory way before the counting, playing mind games, using multimedia to create campaigns bereft of facts is where electioneering has come down to. Beyond that are the false and inflated egos, fake claims and outlandish
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DailyPost 1651 VACCINE HESITANCY What comes in way of COVID-19 plagued India and a near normal one is Vaccine Hesitancy. As pandemic was an unheard word, in the same manner the next term which has become its challenger is Vaccine Hesitancy. The most awaited guest for the COVID-19 stricken world was the vaccine, at the end
