DailyPost 1842 HOODWINKING THE LAW! If the prospective accused in this country have a little knowledge of law, they would not have taken law, investigative and judicial processes in such a cavalier manner. The understanding that we can get away while hoodwinking the law has slowly gotten pretty deep seated. Presume, there would be anecdotal
DailyPost 1841 IS CRIMINALITY OUR POLITICAL DNA? From the tirade against the political parties, for the first time, by a publicly known Chief Election Commissioner, T N Seshan to recent remarks by a bench headed by the Chief Justice of India, in the Suo moto cognizance of Lakhimpur Kheri violence, what has been the common
DailyPost 1840 PUBLIC DOMAIN INVESTIGATION SOPs Over the last week, the whole country has been embroiled in understanding the nitty gritty of the well-established law and procedure. The social media and its well-established brethren, the electronic media, were trying to fathom it out in their own way. The created nebulous nature of laws, for vested interests,
DailyPost 1839 INVESTIGATION LESS INDIA If all registered cases in this country are investigated on the touchstone of the statute in word and spirit, would the face of this country be different? We are not talking of the cases unregistered, which do not see the light of the day for a variety of reasons. Has
DailyPost 1838 PANDORA PAPERS The genesis of the name for this cache of documents remains unknown. Pandora’s box is an artifact in Greek mythology connected with the myth of Pandora in Hesiod’s Works and Days. In reality this explanation is right; “A present which seems valuable but which in reality is a curse.” The recently
DailyPost 1837 OF POLICE AND POLITICIANS… If the route to political glory or recognition goes through the Police Station, then the relationship of power play, the role of police would ever remain intriguing and fascinating. There would hardly be a leader who would not have had his tryst with the Police. Even if we give discount
DailyPost 1836 HAVE WE LOST POLICING ON THE WAY… The quality of policing defines the quality of life of a nation. For long it has been a non-developmental head of account and it was presumed that there is no need for any major investment in it. Capital investment has not been forthcoming, so where was the
DailyPost 1835 APPOINTMENT LESS STATE There is a human imperative to governance and that is as complicated as the governance itself. It has long been said that if you can manage your human resources well, rest everything can be managed. There are lots of issues which make a world class governance happen, suffice to say
DailyPost 1834 CODEX The battle between man and machine got into its harshest phase with Artificial Intelligence showing its true colors in large numbers of areas impacting our life. There has been the looming fear of AI taking over the technical and domain competence and running the world on its own. Lot of it has been
DailyPost 1833 THE MAHATMA AND THE PRACTITIONER While we vow every year to follow the teachings and the life of the Mahatma, how much we have drifted away from it is not left to anybody’s imagination. His thoughts, quotes and life ignited to act, even physically, at least two generations of Indians, to the ultimate
DailyPost 1832 POLITICAL MAVERICKS, IGNORANCE AND EGO How do mavericks get connected to ignorance and ego? Firstly, ego and ignorance are intricately connected. Ego is inversely proportional to learning, knowledge and wisdom. The second reality is ignorance with super ego can be suicidal for you and if you somehow escape, it would be a nemesis call
