Governance & Politics

DailyPost 1977 DEMOCRATIZATION OF KNOWLEDGE Democracy without democratization of knowledge is deadwood. What is democratization of knowledge? It is a slightly far-reaching term, which encompasses within itself, data to information to some quantum of findings by any established process, which gives the feeling to the citizens of a democratic nation that he or she is empowered.

DailyPost 1975 POLITICAL TALENT If nothing in Indian politics has ever put you at your wits end, this for sure will. What is political talent? What does it comprise of, if any? And how does it connect to the government, governance, growth, development and finally through this route to welfare of all. What do we elect

DailyPost 1971 ELECTIONS – DESCENDING ON BHARAT Bharat is the uncovered part of India, out of limelight, from media or corridors of power, from education to research, from stock market to conferencing and seminars. We never hear or see of them, until something unusual happens, a road or rail accident, some VIP visit or a

DailyPost 1970 OPINIONATED INDIA (2) Opinionated India belies any definition. When it is opinionated, can there be any glass ceiling? There is absolutely no way out to declare some areas to be opinionated and others open to democratic and objective thinking. Leaving facts and data and creating an opinion on your own and declare that to

DailyPost 1969 OPINIONATED INDIA The dilution of everything into opinion is the sharp descent of this country into what can be termed as Opinionated India. This is a state, where there are no realities, no black or white, it has become a land of grey, and even the exact shade and texture of grey is

DailyPost 1964 STAGE MANAGED DEMOCRACY It was years of toil with the best level of intellect, experience, expertise, legal acumen, love and vision for this country that gave the country its constitution. The forum which made it happen was the Constituent Assembly. Both the constitution and the republic were born. Within this framework the vision of

DailyPost 1961 PROTECTION FOR WHAT? It is the mandated task of the state to provide protection to each and every one of its citizens, and to live without fear can be safety turned as a human right. How much of the democratic right is provided for  is a billion-dollar question? What quantum of it we are

DailyPost 1958 TALENTLESS DEMOCRACY Democracy is the art of making things happen the right way, for the largest number of people and necessarily to make it happen, talent would be the prime mover. The battle of UP and all that appears in the electronic, print or the social media, speaks nothing of talent being projected

DailyPost 1956 STATECRAFT – WILL THE CONVENTIONAL ONE DO? The art of conducting the affairs of the state is statecraft. Such a simplistic description and within it encompasses the whole of how a state operates end to end. It deals with every aspect of human existence and its totality as well. Over and above, what