DailyPost 2576 PERSONAL DATA PRIVACY & OPEN GOVT. DATA The world revolves around data is a proven fact of the modern world, even when you are not using data even for any worthwhile purpose. While the country keeps talking about technology and now artificial intelligence ad nauseum the reality is otherwise. India remains a country […]

DailyPost 2575 BUSINESS SANS BUSINESS CULTURE In the land of the Jugaad, it is only limited to finding a way out to workable solutions, it also pervades into every aspect of our society and existence. It has been ingrained into our culture. In simple terms it means a short cut to things which have to

DailyPost 2574 ELECTION CESS OR SURCHARGE The most essential cess, tax or surcharge which the country needs immediately is related to meeting the expenses incurred during elections by politicians and political parties. Indians have been accustomed to paying 2% of cess for a variety of reasons and there has never been a murmur. The taxed

DailyPost 2573 POSTS, POSTINGS & SUPERFLOUS GOVERNANCE In the din, clamour of posts and postings, locations of power and the proximity to it, how much can you project to live in reflected glory of the post, or closeness to power, and the influence you wield and seem to wield, covers the complete mind space of

DailyPost 2572 ELECTION PLANNING What is election planning? It is certainly 8way more intriguing8 than democracy and much more complex than the governance of this country. While it is practiced with utmost vigor, day in day out, by single politician and every political party, yet it is nowhere mentioned in the democratic parlance of the

DailyPost 2571 IS INDUSTRY 4.0 ALL PERVASIVE? We have never talked of industrial revolutions limited to the creation and transformation of industry, but always deliberated on the all-pervasive impact it had for the world. Most of it has been positive and some for sure have been negative. Growth trajectory of a kind mankind gleefully lapped

DailyPost 2570 CYBER SECURITY FOR INDUSTRY 4.0 When hacking is the new normal, how can Industry 4.0 escape from it. If you think the other way round, given progression of cyber attack and the threat actors involved, Industry 4.0 seems like a natural target. Strictly from a motive point of view, which is causal imperative

DailyPost 2569 CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS – HOW CREDIBLE ARE THEY? Criminal investigations have defined India’s politics any number of times. Our current evolving political scenario provides one such watershed moment in modern Indian history enabled by criminal investigations. In its gamut, for sake of easier understanding we can include allegations, audits, foreign / Indian investigative journalistic

DailyPost 2568 ONE FREEBIE, ONE INDIA If standardization of freebie was to happen by a constitutional amendment, then in current political and governance ecosystem; politicians, political class and political parties would cease to exist. Freebie here is being used as collection of things been provided for free, which cannot generate income or money being directly

DailyPost 2567 JUDICIAL DIRECTIVES & ADVISORIES Judicial directives emanating out of judgements, directives for action and advisories in general but of impact making nature, has been a part of our judicial proceedings and decisions. Stinging remarks by the courts are to jolt the powers that be, make processes deliver results and give a feeling that

DailyPost 2566 INDIAN DEMOCRACY – BENEFICIARY KAUN? Indian democracy has been replete with ways and means to cajole, impress, persuade and even dole out to voters, if need be, legally or illegally, from even prior to the announcement of elections till deep in the running term of an elected government. The name of the game