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Bureacracy Is Good

Bureaucracy is good.  Bureaucracy checks corruption. Now let me explain why I am making such unpalatable statements. Below is a definition of bureaucracy quoted from an online dictionary: A system of administration wherein there is a specialization of functions, objective qualifications for office, action according to the adherence to fixed rules, and a hierarchy of authority and delegated power. Adherence to fixed rules is what attracts me the most. Assurance…


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The Internet

I first thought of writing on this topic in my blog on politics, but, I think, the internet hasn’t yet reached that kind of penetration, at least not in India. Nevertheless, the world of the internet is fascinating. A little bit about technology first. The most intriguing feature of technology is its ironical disposition to act both as a medium of individual liberty and a biggest curb on it through…


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Lokpal

I think lokpal is a political personality and is a part of the institution of people’s representatives. In India, the politicians namely the MPs, the MLAs, the councilors, the panchayat members, etc, are people’s representatives. The judges are not people’s representatives, nor are the bureaucrats, and nor are the forces. An ombudsman is also undoubtedly a people’s representative looking after the grievance of people against their government; the grievance necessarily…


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Corruption

“Corruption” is departure from what is “correct”. “Correct” means conformable to a just standard or truth. I will take one example. Constitutional and legal duties have been fixed upon the government employees and the ministers, and they are not supposed to deviate from them, whatever the circumstances, whatever the inducements. As per the original standards, a police officer was supposed to register the FIR on receiving a complaint without any…


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Right to Freedom from Wrongful Confinement

Thankfully, the humans can now talk of freedom after the abolition of slavery. Now, only the state is left with the right (?) of putting a person behind bars, of course, through a criminal justice process: the process in which a hi-fi criminal gets bail, the investigators fail to get evidence and the prosecution thus files the case; or, in a process, in which a poor accused is kept behind…


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No Entry for Politicians…Dogs Considered

Sometimes, I really wonder what purpose do these politicians really serve. However they are, at present, the most important ingredient of the democratic, as well as the communist, countries as they make law. And, the power to make law gives them the power to rule and to blatantly break and manipulate all laws they make and thus to make the importance of laws equivalent to cipher. The politicians, as a…