DailyPost 1786 LIFE IS POLITICAL DECISION Life is a political decision and so is death, it seems. The fall out of political decisions are so far reaching that the ones who decide are even not aware of it. What they see is only what can be seen. Behind the scenes, machinations of human existence, of […]
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DailyPost 712 AMERICA TRUMPED! There is no proverbial last straw on the camel’s back, the back is full of last straws, only time will decide it’s future is the thought Americans have live with in Trump’s Presidency. For all that the world has heard and seen of his Presidency, mostly is amazement, bewilderment & disbelief,
DailyPost 708 ARE LIBERAL DEMOCRACIES SETTLED? Might be a decade back, there was a general feeling that liberal democracies are well settled. That it is there to stay seems well settled, but how robust is it is the issue? The simmerings have been felt for lomg but present US Presidency has brought it to the
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DailyPost 696 A STANDALONE PRESIDENT The Trump Saga can’t get murkier is what one thinks. Then another skeleton tumbles from the iconic & proverbial Trump’s corporate-political cupboard. The last 20 months of US Presidency has more to offer to the Hollywood script writers than hundreds of years preceding it. A drama extraordinare. Elements that can
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DailyPost 660 THE LOWEST EBB The joint press conference at the Helsinki Summit between Trump & Putin yesterday has been the lowest ebb of a US President. ”No prior president has ever abased himself more abjectly before a tyrant,” Mr. McCain said in a statement. The American stature seems to have been brought to dust
DailyPost 659 PRESIDENCY TRUMPED! American Presidency & democracy are very deeply intertwined. The most powerful person on the planet is also the leader of the free world. Allies all around & global responsibilities to shoulder. Democratic values become an integral part of the national mainstream. Democratic institutions deliver in a manner expected out of the
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DailyPost 644 START – UP NATION As India gets into the startup journey, role models do matter. Israel emerged as a trailblazer. Dan Senor & Saul Singer in their 2009 book rechristened Israel as a “Start-up Nation,” unravelling the story of Israel’s Economic Miracle. Getting independent in 1948, Israel epitomizes courage & conviction with creativity
DailyPost 408 GUN DEMOCRACY It’s a general democratic presumption that democratic freedom & lax gun laws are antithetical to each other. US certainly stands out as an exception. Close on the heels of largest mass killing in modern American history in Las Vegas last month, the recent Texas shooting of 26 persons in a Church
DailyPost 330 DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE TRUMPED Winning a democratic election & swearing in as the head of the state, transforms the leader into the CEO of the nation. A man of vision, mission, skills, capabilities, competencies with courage & conviction, having belief in complete fair play, is supposed to emerge out of the election process. The
DailyPost 329 DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE TRUMPED Winning a democratic election & swearing in as the head of the state, transforms the leader into the CEO of the nation. A man of vision, mission, skills, capabilities, competencies with courage & conviction, having belief in complete fair play, is supposed to emerge out of the election process. The
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DailyPost 328 WHITE HOUSE – THE WAR OF ATTRITION Max Weber’s model of bureaucracy is on which modern democracies run, in simple terms, work on the philosophy of competence, stability & anonymity. This has stood the test of time in the US, providing rock solid strength to its institutions to bloom. The Indian variant we
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