DailyPost 1669 THE ELECTORS AND THE ELECTED They are known as the people’s representatives. They come at huge cost to the exchequer and completely and comprehensively control the levers of power form the Gram Panchayat to the Union Cabinet. Having been elected, they become adept in using their electorally enabled clout to every area of
DailyPost 1668 HEAVY DUTY READING Speaking, reading and writing are extremely necessary skills of every human being. It can take you to the pedestal or leave you down in the dumps for all your life. Every person would love to have these but very very few are able to achieve even an iota of excellence in
DailyPost 1667 THE MATURITY FRAUD The make-believe world of maturity is what we have created unconnected with the harsh reality with which we have to grapple with on a day-to-day basis. The self-propelled maturity halo by large number of mavericks in different areas adds to the already existing mess in which we are deeply stuck up.
DailyPost 1666 REAL VISUALS & IMAGINARY DISCUSSIONS Bizarre is an understatement, things don’t change but who knew that the enemy would be changing the rules of game. Laxity and timelessness has been our sanskar. Not that we have not handled emergencies but mostly the emergencies have always had the better of us and passed over. The
DailyPost 1665 PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY Optimism and day dreaming cannot be one and the same thing. At times it is brought down to wishful thinking bit that too cannot sort out issues. With Dooms Day looming large on the horizon, the slew of non-impact making decisions made by governments coupled with the track record of
DailyPost 1664 FORFIETED THE RIGHT TO RULE! The deaths of patients happening outside hospitals where they have not been able to gain entry, while Ministers have been taking stock of the situation in the very same hospitals and doctors attending to their visit, is a sad commentary on the state of emergency response we have
DailyPost 1663 CORONA DOES NOT BARGAIN! Bismarck said ”Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.” That seems to the wisdom of yesteryears, of a different age, time and thought process, learning by your own mistakes itself has become an act of wisdom today. If that were
DailyPost 1662 A WELFARE STATE The best way to describe the Indian state is a welfare state. Welfare in normal parlance means that the government takes care of the poor and the needy. The constitution, the laws and the government machinery is at the backend. The poor and needy by the acts, attitude and response of
DailyPost 1661 IF YOU CAN’T DECIDE… If you can’t decide, you should not govern. If you don’t know what you are deciding on, you should not govern. If you don’t know the implementation / execution mechanism, you should not govern. If you can’t follow through the decision, you should not govern. If you cannot get the
DailyPost 1660 POLITICAL INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY One tea seller used missed calls for taking his orders, there would be tons of other innovative methods using the technology. Given the COVID-19 times, technology has become our mainstay. There has been a push towards information technology in the government over the last decade or so or even earlier.
DailyPost 1659 IF LOCKDOWN IS NOT… Lockdown is not an answer is bandied around all over the media, then what is the answer. This is in the context of the second avoidable COVID surge, we have been put into. What is the answer then? Why was the answer / solution not made known to the
