Tagged: Elections

On why corrupt politicians win elections in India…

RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan explains it lucidly…Excerpts from a recent speech (emphasis added): *** Excerpts Begin *** “….Even as our democracy and our economy have become more vibrant, an important issue in the recent...

Of Criminals and Elections

This post was prompted by a question posed by Suresh in an email to me a few weeks ago. Suresh wrote: I think Arun Gawali is a CONVICTED criminal, albeit he has possibly an...

The not-so-secular elections in Mizoram

Although I was aware that the Church was playing an increasingly prominent role in the elections in Mizoram, the full extent of that missed me until I was alerted to this report in Outlook...