Category: Elections 2009

Of Indian Media and Elections

Over the course of last few days, I came across two separate mentions regarding Indian media and the on-going elections. Both of them had a very disturbing underlying theme – which was – we...

W’end Links: Celeb Crusades, Armed Intrusion, Bofors

Start this weekend with P Sainath at his best on Celeb crusades & the death of politics. A very brief excerpt: The Lok Sabha constituencies of Mumbai averaged over 60 per cent voting between 1957...

Did someone say it is “election season”?

Connect the dots. …The Interpol has removed the red-corner notice issued against Ottavio Quattrocchi, an Italian businessman who is being sought in India  for criminal charges for acting as a conduit for bribes in...

ADR’s latest initiative: MyNeta.info

Dear All, I am very pleased to share news about the latest initiative from friends at ADR: http://myneta.info/  MyNeta is a a phenomenal effort to empower voters and to make them more aware of their...