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The Campaign Lens : Shashi Tharoor
I made these pictures in March 2014 while observing Shashi Tharoor on his campaign trail in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, where the diplomat-turned-politican is making a bid for re-election. In the last...
View ArticleWorld Wrap: The Foreign Press On The Indian Elections
The world is watching as India goes to the polls, even as the country’s political parties and pundits continue to unleash a bewildering mix of news, rhetoric and rumor. The foreign press too is not...
View ArticleIs Modi Too Ambitious? Arvind Panagariya On Infrastructure, Reforms & Joining...
A rvind Panagariya is a Professor of Economics & Jagdish Bhagwati Professor of Indian Political Economy at Columbia University. A well-known backer of Narendra Modi’s economic policies, the...
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The Campaign Lens: Narendra Modi
T hroughout my travels, I had been looking closely for signs of the ‘Modi wave’. I finally saw it on the day that Narendra Modi filed his nomination as the BJP’s Lok Sabha candidate from Varanasi. I...
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Parlia-mental: Manmohan Singh’s New Avatar
Political satire is a serious thing, and as political scientist Dr. Paul Parker once remarked, “The political cartoonist is not necessarily bound by the same ethical standards as journalists.” In the...
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5 Election Parody Websites You Might Have Missed
We may call them politicians, but the Internet calls them cannon-fodder. Image: Indian Memes Much has been made of how big a role social media has played in the 2014 Parliamentary elections. However,...
View ArticleA Tale of Two States : The Politics of Andhra Pradesh
M uch has been said, written and bellowed about the Congress’ gloomy prospects in what are now Telangana and Seemandhra (for a refresher on how the two states came to be, check out The 545’s story from...
View ArticleThe Map That Shows It All : The 545 Poll Tracker
F ive weeks after they began, the 2014 Indian elections come to a close today, with the final 41 constituencies going to the polls in the ninth phase. Sixty-six million voters from Bihar, Uttar...
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The Campaign Lens: Varun Gandhi
“Your village is so small, I normally would not have visited this place,” said Varun Gandhi. The BJP’s Lok Sabha candidate from Sultanpur and sitting MP from Pilibhit, UP, was speaking to a gathering...
View ArticleThe Only 10 Seats You Need To Look Out For On May 16
There has been talk of a “Modi Wave”, a political tsunami that would ride the BJP to a majority — or a near majority — in Parliament. But how big does that wave need to be, for the BJP to win 200 or...
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