DailyPost 1647 EMPTY POLITICAL VESSELS! As the time proven adage goes, ”Empty vessels make the most noise,” there could be nothing closer to this than the Indian political class. *From the debates in the Constituent Assembly to the present day electoral campaigning is the best example of a worst downslide. The intellect, debate, varied points of view
DailyPost 1646 THE COVID-19 IMBROGLIO Can enforcement be the way out? If has often been said that lockdown is not an answer. Maybe it is not. But what does that mean? We remain cross legged, while attending to our daily chores and paying homilies to a precarious situation, which is certainly of our creation. Self-regulation
DailyPost 1645 TAPPED, STUNG & TRAPPED Over the years in the machinations of politics the country over, some tools have made themselves critical in the conquest of political goals. These tools work in conjunction with well-established political toolkits used for conquering elections, staking claims at government formation, MLAs resort captivity operations, proving majority on the
DailyPost 1644 POLITICAL PROPRIETY Nobody has even been able to define political propriety. There is a general feeling that it is on the downslide. One of the meanings of propriety is appropriateness to the purpose or circumstance; suitability. The standard definition of everything is positive or pro-active in nature. In case we get into the current side
DailyPost 1643 ELECTIONS – AN OPERATION IN THEATRICS Even before the din and dust of Bihar elections had settled, the vaccine which was on the horizon became a reality. It was as good as a back-to-back operation of sorts. There has not been even a murmur regarding the universal mass free vaccination promised in one
DailyPost 1642 A BROKEN HOUSE United we stand, divided we fall. Divided also things have survived and if rectification happens in an earnest way, there are chances that organizations / institutions can be brought back on rails. In a variegated society, polity and governance like ours, some divisive elements and issues would always be there. Might
DailyPost 1641 THE UNWRITTEN CONSTITUTION While India has a written constitution what actually operates is an unwritten constitution known to all in the areas they operate. If for some quirk of fate the unwritten one comes in friction with the written one as in the current Maharashtra case, a huge hue and cry is raised. The
DailyPost 1640 WHAT IS THERE TO ENQUIRE? The facts which the Indian population and perception was forced to accept as realities of life is shown again and again as scoop, breaking news, matter for detailed enquiry, CBI investigation and a case of judicial intervention. The whole system always gives a very well-modulated, calibrated and naïve look
DailyPost 1639 THE STATE OF A STATE! The functioning of the police and the government has been a spectacle in a state for quite some time. In a hard coded governance mechanism which has stood the test of time, the flaws which have been surfacing in the last decade or so, and getting graver by
DailyPost 1638 INVESTOR DESTINATION – SENSEX OR NO SENSEX The rough and tumble of the stock market is not unknown to the world. There are lots of conceptions and misconceptions of what happens in the stock market, which are deep seated. The running sentiment is that the stock market is risky, there are no rules of
DailyPost 1637 ACADEMIC FREEDOM? In all the freedoms we keep talking about on a regular basis, we have not been talking of academic freedom ever. Does it need to be talked about or is it a given? Is there any connection between academic and the other freedoms, both by way of inculcating it and using
