Category: Elections Results, Analysis and Related

Kaun Banega Crorepati?*

Anil Bairwal of ADR released their “Updated Analysis of Lok Sabha MPs” – Criminal, Financial,Educational Background yesterday in which I found this nugget of information: Total number of crorepati MPs in the present Lok...

India decides on Congress led UPA – Guest Post

*** India decides on Congress led UPA – is it a default, surprise or strategy? *** Guest Post by Ashwin Kumaraswamy Knowing very well, this post is a tad too early; the largest democracy...

Open Thread to discuss Elections 2009

Hurried post starting with some highlights from the results/early indications of 2009 Lok Sabha polls. Left’s nationwide tally might be reduced to 25, scripts worst performance in West Bengal Lok Janshakti Party supremo and...

A rethink on majority and minorities…

This post was prompted by an exchange sometime ago on the Freedom Team of India google groups on the subject of “minority protection“. As we get into the final stages of 2009 Lok Sabha...

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...