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The Great Indian Rope Trick – Election 2009
Filed in General Interest, May 17, 2009, 5:33 pm by Priya RajuThe Great Indian Rope Trick – Election 2009Updated: For people that want to understand the manifestos of the key parties, this single page PDF from The Hindu is a good source. Some people on Twitter seem to think we didn’t read the manifestos.
The biggest circus of 2009 – the Indian Parliamentary Election – has ended. [...]
Democracy In India – Part 2
Filed in General Interest, June 27, 2008, 4:09 am by Priya RajuDemocracy In India – Part 2The world is abuzz with the gross human rights violations in Zimbabwe. Free & fair elections are well neigh impossible. Morgan Tsvangirai, the opposition leader, is incarcerated whenever Robert Mugabe feels paranoid. The media is in shackles. Many people are homeless because of the mass evictions by the government. The [...]
Democracy In India – Part 1
Filed in General Interest, June 14, 2008, 9:29 am by Priya RajuDemocracy In India – Part 1The world is chock full of tiresome, litigious people. I fervently hope they won’t accuse me of pilfering this title from de Tocqueville’s “Democracy in America”. For the past few weeks, some over-sized issues are stewing in my under-sized brain. There’s no room for plagiarism, as it were. I’m not [...]
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