DailyPost 2172 URBAN MISERY – SUPERTECH TWIN TOWERS TO A SINKING IT CITY The short journey time of these two events speaks with utmost clarity the nature of urban misery that is bestowed on us. Lutyens Delhi still stands tall after decades of existence with hardly any semblance of wear and tear from a city […]
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DailyPost 2167 WHAT GOVT WISHES… What governments wishes is public interest. It has been the running story of Indian democracy for a long time. One suffix of public interest solves all the issues in one go. It is the magic bullet. It’s the panacea to all ills. The expressions are different, wherever legally required it
DailyPost 2166 NEW AGE POLITICAL TOOLS – CORRUPTION, FREEBIES & DEVELOPMENT Democracy is the best tool for both politics and governance known to mankind to date. It brings down considerably the ills of all earlier forms of politics, expansionism and governance. It brings governance on a sustainable mode emanating out of the will of the
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DailyPost 2152 PUBLIC UTTERANCES Public utterances by public figures, political executive, party functionaries, celebrities, senior most officials, elected representatives, religious leaders et al drives democracy on a day-to-day basis. They are the sentinels of the public domain, who amplify both people’s mind, government’s mind and policies and try to influence the society to move in
DATA PROTECTION AND THE LAW! If we still have to drive home the importance of data protection or the multifarious losses which has been happening for the lack of data protection law, then we have lost out the case. Think of a minefield with no security forces, intelligence, demining experts and no law to support
DailyPost 2134 POLITICAL PARTIES AT WAR! You can term it as civil war of political parties. Political acrimony is the inherent architecture of a democracy. All of us have grown with experiencing these facts all around us. That the monsoon session would be a different sort of a downpour was a normal expectation, but it
DailyPost 2126 A COUNTRY AT WAR! The is no enemy. There is no aggressor. And the country has not declared war on anyone. How many organizations, institutions, departments, police, investigative agencies, political parties etc are at peace with themselves and with those they interact with? To top it all, how many of them feel satisfied
DailyPost 2102 BEYOND COMPREHENSION! Indian politics is an intriguing game, which all the practitioners understand from the word go, but is completely beyond comprehension for whom it is played, the people of India. Think of a jam-packed stadium where the spectators don’t know what game is being played, its rules and how the winner would
DailyPost 2099 ROMANTICISING POVERTY! The Politics of Poverty was a book written in an African setting. You can very well make out what issue would it be addressing to. The UN Missions and UN Agencies have spent a lifetime for improving the lot of the poor in most parts of the continent, certainly not making
DailyPost 2097 POLITICAL LEXICON! That the political lexicon is a dynamic one and it reflects the political reality in its wide and varied manifestations. Pre-independence era has its own political terminology, that both defined and substantiated the political thought, actions, programs, protests or the agitations of the day. Non-cooperation, civil disobedience etc became an integral
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
