DailyPost 2812 FROM NUMBERS TO THE NATURE OF COALITION! The Indian politician has an uncanny knack of rationalising to start with, and then validating, authenticating and finding historical analogies, of events, facts and twists & turns, he would not have even imagined of. The Indian electorate, at least the active ones, who work for parties, […]

DailyPost 2811 FBI RECOVERS 7,000 LOCKBIT KEYS It has been a long time since we got any good news with regards to action on Ransomware or even some redressal to the victims of this tsunami, after the dismantling of a top ransomware gang in Russia, early last year. Nonetheless, it appeared in a few months

DailyPost 2810 CABAL DEMOCRACY We live in a representative democracy and the whole exercise of elections is conducted to facilitate this constitutional requirement. What does representation mean? This can be a million dollar question for any elected representative in this country. The most basic question is did the electorate have any role in selection of

DailyPost 2809 DEMOCRACY IN MOTION: AGGRESSIVE, AUDACIOUS, INDIFFERENT AND EXPLOITATIVE What went wrong with one of the leading exit polls, the prima donna of that agency was discussing at length on the same channel he has an alliance with. Indians are known for defending the indefensible, he was no different. He could just have kept

DailyPost 2808 EXIT POLLS – SHOULD THEY EXIST? Exit polls have never generated so much heat and dust in the electoral history of the country, the way it’s doing now. It seems as if there is no counting to come and poll of polls is enough to take you to the parliament. The exit polls

DailyPost 2807 THE BUSINESS OF ELECTIONS Are elections just a celebration of democracy; a neat sacred exercise wherein the citizen exercises his franchise, elects his representative, leading to the formation of the government. The government presumably becomes the will of the people, and works for the greater good of the masses. If democracy and governance

DailyPost 2806 PUBLIC DOMAIN PROFESSIONAL EXPERTISE Is the quantum of professional expertise in the public domain directly proportional to the quality of the development of the nation? The public domain professional expertise provides the north star for literally anything and everything that the country does. Over time it leads to the development of national culture;

DailyPost 2805 WHERE CRIME HAS LOST ITS STIGMA Social stigma is what everybody is bothered about. Not that everyone is pious, but no one wants to be caught doing a wrong act. This is known as social deterrence and it takes care of lots of social aberrations mostly of the minor variety. Crime takes the

DailyPost 2804 PORSCHE MAN MADE ACCIDENT CASE : SYSTEM IN THE DOCK? We hear of a number of cases where investigation was presumably doctored. It was in the realm of conjecture for the masses. Depending on lapses brought forth with some substantiation or seemingly justice not being done, the people generally take a call. That

DailyPost 2803 WHEN EVERYONE IS A TARGET… Getting hacked is the new normal has been a truism in vogue for quite some time now. Nobody can escape and breach is imminent and hence it is just a matter of time. This certainly drills down the gravity of the situation to a considerable degree. Either prevention

DailyPost 2802 INDIA ON FIRE, WHOSE CASE IS IT? The Rajkot and the Delhi fire accidents, if we may call them so, once again rips apart the dirty underbelly of Indian regulatory and enforcement agencies and the degradation of general governance. If this is the case in big cities one would be scared to imagine