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
DailyPost 1648 VIRTUAL ELECTION CAMPAIGNING COVID-19 has been the biggest enabler of the digital way of life and has finally created a new age, which can termed as the Digital Immersion Age. The nature of transformation which all IT behemoths could not make it happen in last two decades happened automatically, with the onset of
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DailyPost 1647 EMPTY POLITICAL VESSELS! As the time proven adage goes, ”Empty vessels make the most noise,” there could be nothing closer to this than the Indian political class. *From the debates in the Constituent Assembly to the present day electoral campaigning is the best example of a worst downslide. The intellect, debate, varied points of view
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DailyPost 1646 THE COVID-19 IMBROGLIO Can enforcement be the way out? If has often been said that lockdown is not an answer. Maybe it is not. But what does that mean? We remain cross legged, while attending to our daily chores and paying homilies to a precarious situation, which is certainly of our creation. Self-regulation
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DailyPost 1645 TAPPED, STUNG & TRAPPED Over the years in the machinations of politics the country over, some tools have made themselves critical in the conquest of political goals. These tools work in conjunction with well-established political toolkits used for conquering elections, staking claims at government formation, MLAs resort captivity operations, proving majority on the
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DailyPost 1644 POLITICAL PROPRIETY Nobody has even been able to define political propriety. There is a general feeling that it is on the downslide. One of the meanings of propriety is appropriateness to the purpose or circumstance; suitability. The standard definition of everything is positive or pro-active in nature. In case we get into the current side
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DailyPost 1643 ELECTIONS – AN OPERATION IN THEATRICS Even before the din and dust of Bihar elections had settled, the vaccine which was on the horizon became a reality. It was as good as a back-to-back operation of sorts. There has not been even a murmur regarding the universal mass free vaccination promised in one
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DailyPost 1642 A BROKEN HOUSE United we stand, divided we fall. Divided also things have survived and if rectification happens in an earnest way, there are chances that organizations / institutions can be brought back on rails. In a variegated society, polity and governance like ours, some divisive elements and issues would always be there. Might
DailyPost 1641 THE UNWRITTEN CONSTITUTION While India has a written constitution what actually operates is an unwritten constitution known to all in the areas they operate. If for some quirk of fate the unwritten one comes in friction with the written one as in the current Maharashtra case, a huge hue and cry is raised. The
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