Secret of life

Published on 6th October, 2018, in The Economic Times. A simple way to harness power is to keep a secret. This tendency, of being covert, has been used across time and space, around the world, in myth and in reality, in politics and in romance. Take for example, the idea of the Electoral Bonds: Although you are a citizen of India, you have no idea about who funds your political parties because the state has decided that the funding of political parties shall be kept a secret. So, the source of the funds could be a foreign power. It could be a criminal organization -we ..