Shining Path
Read biographyFirstpost is thrilled to introduce Shining Path, an audience member who will begin blogging for us on a regular basis. In his own words: "Shiningpath had enough! 6451 days of debilitating non-work in corporate corridors, cubicles and windowless cabins. Chained to protocols, bound by hierarchies and surrounded by people with core competencies. So he hit the self-eject button, and found himself a nice hammock – from where he now watches the world , reads, attempts to write , gives a comment here, a commentary there...unsolicited mainly….and moonlights as a freelance business consultant in Bangalore.
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Parliament at 60: How rich are our netas!
Picking up from where I left off in my last write-up (click here to access), wherein I had put out some facts and figures pertaining to the composition of our criminal-infested current Lok Sabha, this post will attempt to touch upon the second component of the criminals-and-looters theory that #HowThisWorks #MPs #Parliament of India
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Parl at 60: Dear MPs, more than JUST your slip is showing
Circa 400 BC….Scintillating discussions, debates and arguments on what constituted a perfect governing system; de-constructing justice, demos, kratias (from where we get the word “democracy”) and other such notions into their constituent elements. Socrates, Glaucon, Thrasymachus & gang at it. Relentlessly. “In fact, The Republic does address the danger that power #India #Mayawati #MPs #PoliticsDecoder
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Is Kalmadi attempting to sneak back into power?
“Burn me once, shame on you. Burn me twice, shame on me” - Unknown Completely devoid of the frenzied white-noise that accompanies charges of corruption being traded between political parties and away from the earnest debates raging around us on whether the current President of India is the worst ever by #Central Bureau of Investigation #Commonwealth Games #Delhi High Court #Supreme Court #Suresh Kalmadi #ThatsJustWrong
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Politicians must change before they have no choice
A misdeed or scam, whatever name it goes by, whatever form and structure it assumes, is often symptomatic of a larger, all-pervading rot. This post is not about corruption, 2G, CWG, Freedom of Speech and Expression, Mining mafia or Anti-graft bills lying on ice-cold back-burners for 40 plus years. It is #Egypt #Governance #HowThisWorks #India #Political corruption #Theory of Forms
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A contract of employment— for our beloved MP, MLC, MLA…
The Backdrop: Move over, all of you – it is time I wrest back control. And while I am at it, I, the citizen of India, hereby solemnly declare that YOU are perilously close to getting fired. Some of you will be re-hired in due course, but on my terms. In fact #Constitution of India #indian politicians #Raja Bhaiya #ThingsWeLike
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Go for electoral reforms, save the next Narendra Kumar!
Will Narendra Kumar’s gruesome murder change anything? On 5th Match 2012, while attempting to highlight the need for Electoral Reforms, I wrote: “By April, annoying facts pertaining to gross abuse of power, will fall by the wayside once the Political machinery starts humming in these States. The spin-doctoring, political vendettas #ConnectTheDots #Election Commission #Electoral reform #Narendra Kumar
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Waiting for Godot: When will we see election reform?
We are about to be rudely reminded of the exhilarating power of our vote in a perfectible, but not yet perfect, Democracy. That precious right, which Democracy doles out to those of us above a certain age, is set to determine the future of the States which went to elections #Anna Hazare #Chief Election Commissioner #Electoral reform #Jayaprakash Narayan #UP2012 #Uttar Pradesh
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Do boring meetings make you dumb?
A recent research study reveals what most of us have feared since times immemorial – meetings make us dumber than a piece of retarded sponge. Allow me a few nonsensical words (about 450) to reminisce a bit, before I dazzle you with the findings of the research study. -Start Nonsensical Words- It #corporate sadism #didyouknow #IQ level #Meetings #Non-classical logic
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After Porngate: A brief history of parliamentary supremacy
Copious amounts of drool and sackfuls of saccharine are not the Pavlovian responses that the words “Political class” generate in most of us. Unless one is a direct beneficiary of some hastily denotified plot of land, a recipient of cheap spectrum, supplier of pedestal fans for a sporting event, the #MLAs #MPs #PornGate #Unruly Behaviour
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Confessions of a dangerous (pseudo) intellectual
Who am I? I am a self-proclaimed Intellectual. Often found wandering aimlessly, as I put my left foot ahead of the right, labouring along a road less travelled. When I am lost, I sometimes put both feet into my mouth – it is quite therapeutic. Where can you find me? Anywhere, #arm chair critic #Groucho Marx #Intellectual #JustSaying #Richard Dawkins