DailyPost 2019 ”A MAP FOR LEARNING DATA SCIENCE” Data Science though in vogue all around us for a variety of reasons, one important certainly being fancy, is understood and used differently. The learning also is in wide and varied modes. How much one has understood and whether that would serve the purpose in the professional […]
DailyPost 2018 AN ECONOMICS OF NOTHING! How much of economics is a part of our national debates? How many economists of repute and demonstrated capability are guiding the public finances of the country? Economics can remain subservient to politics but the rules of politics cannot become the rules of governing an economy of even the
DailyPost 2017 THE NEW RESEARCH – TECH ENABLED COLLABORATION Indian model of research which is the feeder, that propels our university system, where we have one guide and one researcher, and between them and an outside review at the end, research is over. It is a marvel that it has sustained for such a long
DailyPost 2016 EERIE SILENCE & THE GLASS HOUSE MINDSET Being a practicing writer or a practitioner and writer seamlessly merging the two and trying to deliver much beyond the two, is a vision and a mission I am wedded to. There is a need for solid and unending purpose for anything to survive beyond a
DailyPost 2015 AN UMBRELLA OF TRUST & CREDIBILITY The whole of democratic mechanism is the sum total of trust and credibility in the system. This is the true value of the system. Any democracy will function well, if it has these two propellants as its regular fuel. What would these elements score on the scale
DailyPost 2014 EXPERTISE AGGREGATION What is expertise aggregation is question we are faced with? It is bringing together of complementary and supplementary expertise, mainly within an organization or similar organizations to fulfil the task assigned in an effective manner. Sometimes you might need expertise of professionals from dissimilar organisations. Today’s problem statements and requirements have
DailyPost 2013 BENEFICIARY – GOVERNANCE – DEVELOPMENT MODEL The constitution of India lays down a framework of governance for this country. On face of it, it seems that one framework can provide only one variety of governance and the model is etched in stone. Democracy as a system of governance has grown in different formats
DailyPost 2012 LOITERING MUNITIONS While the world was involved in the battle against COVID-19, there was another war that was being fought towards late 2020. This was the battle in the South Caucasus, Nagorno-Karabakh to be precise, this was the battle between Armenia and Azerbaijan. This battle gave a glimpse of the future. A jingoism
DailyPost 2011 AN ENRAGED CLASS! When patience, equanimity, consistency in behavior, objectivity, cogent communication, decision making based on understanding / evaluating the complexity and seeing it through, should have been the sine qua non of this class, what we find instead in an enraged class. Wit, humor, sarcasm and healthy competition is some measure, you
DailyPost 2010 SYNTHETIC REALNESS The direction in which the digital world is moving with origin and authentication of data and the real world not able to provide authenticity, we are in a completely unknown territory. Real and authentic are not one and the same thing. Do we have tools to test realness? Can synthetic realness
DailyPost 2009 COMPUTING THE WORLD Compute is the most critical capability of defining the outstanding potential of the digital world. Whichever you go, you will finally reach where buck stops; the computing threshold achieved. How do you manage the complexity and cost? Moore’s law has been able to support us for the last fifty years,
