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“Kejriwal Is Not Even on Our Radar”

Mihir Srivastava

Sheila Dikshit speaks about her anarchist adversary, on Rahul Gandhi, son Sandeep Dikshit, the issue of women’s safety and more

Change of Guard

The Congress wins a simple majority and the JDS rivals the BJP for second place, bringing an end to the saffron party’s vigilantism and its love of gods and godmen

Democracy as a Demographic Puzzle

Political parties that fail to work out the relevance of the economy and its impact on youth aspirations are doomed

The Election Year Challenge

Does the Government have a strategy to sort India’s economy out?

Nice Guy Comes First

The visual history of a famous victory

BJP versus BJP

This seems to be the principal opposition party’s perpetual state of political existence

Electing an Indian President

Who the President calls to form a government might be crucial in the 2014 polls

Why Even the Best Exit Polls in India Are Useless

Conclusions about caste and community vote patterns in Indian elections are all based on erroneous data. At best we can only make qualitative assessments, but if political ‘scientists’ were to admit this, what would they do?

Can’t the Congress Think Straight?

For all its talk of a lack of regional structure in UP, the party is destroying the one that exists in neighbouring Uttarakhand

Television as Political Theatre

...and the splendid isolation of talking heads doing election analysis in TV studios

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