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Democracy finds its origins in Socratic school of thought which was later documented by Plato in the well-known artifact - The Republic. The Socratic Utopian society was based on partial democracy. Socrates valued the immense power that the veto in a choice of government beholds. However, as per many accounts, he wanted this veto power to lie more in hands of intellectually blessed minds, rather than all commoners. He believed that such important choices should be in hands of well-informed minds or lest the Democracy will fail. Though the way we see Democracy today -in principle, it has now a very strong underpinning of the right to social equality(irrespective of intellect or capability). In fact it can be said to be the extension of the idea of social equality in the dimension of Politics and National administration.  From an ideological spectrum standpoint, democracy can be said to be a more center left. When Idea of Social egalitarianism is stretched to the extreme right, i...

By Arpit Khosla What is self-evident is that we are living in age of Digital transformation. Our lifestyle from bill payments to entertainment to learning has all gone digital. A confluence of factors ranging from Moor’s law , cloudification , hardware commoditization , plunging hardware costs , Ubiquitous connectivity , widespread content digitalization and a wave of Industrial and Enterprise operations digitalization have hastened the dawn of Digital Transformation. These transformational waves have not only touched most aspects of consumer’s lives, but also stimulated a sea change in the way in which the business valuechain stakeholders engage with each other. The result is that almost everything and anything is now available on Web/Mobile over Cloud. This meant new services and multiple new revenue streams. If one was to earmark the key investments that were instrumental in bringing this digital era to life – one would not hesitate to say it is the Cloud Infrastruc...