Analysis

Analysis

Beyond the polls: Finding a path to prosperity

April 2, 2014

When the hoopla of India's epic exercise of democracy settles, the winner will face a formidable task in reviving the nation's economy from the doldrums.

TCA Srinivasa Raghavan lays out the problems, identifies the solutions, and contemplates the hurdles.

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Analysis
Voting

Election Phases: 121 seats at stake in biggest ballot

April 16, 2014

Tomorrow is the crucial fifth phase of voting, the biggest day of the nine-phase, five-week elections schedule. Souresh Roy profiles the seats and tussles to watch. Photo: Rajasthani farmer/Flickr: Shreyans Bhansali

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Analysis
Campaign, Results

The Verdict: Diaspora gather for countdown

May 16, 2014

India's Melbourne-based intelligentsia gathered at the Australia India Institute today to watch the live feed of the count and dissect the Narendra Modi landslide.

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Analysis

The Drum: Our expert roundup of the campaign

April 3, 2014

The polls open next week on the epic five-week Indian Election 2014. (From left) Melbourne University's Dr Pradeep Taneja, Australia India Institute (AII) Director Amitabh Mattoo and eminent journalist and AII Fellow Nirupama Subramanian sum up the form of the candidates and the campaign.

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Analysis
Foreign Policy

India votes; neighbourhood watches. Very closely

April 17, 2014

Despite the sensitivities of the powderkeg region, foreign policy rarely factors in the domestic rhetoric of Indian political campaigns. Nirupama Subramanian explores cross-border relationships. 

Image: Muhammad Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan, with Mahatma Gandhi, Bombay, 1944.
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Analysis
Campaign, Results

The Verdict: How the Modi "Wave" became a tsunami

May 16, 2014

The writing was long on the wall for a BJP win and a Congress rout. But the scale of it has left Modi supporters and detractors alike reeling. Was it a victory for policy, or strategy? Mosiqi Acharya investigates. 

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Corruption, India, Election

The new broom in Indian politics

April 3, 2014

Many dark and murky corners remain in Indian politics, but 'The Common Man's Party' - AAP - has changed the political landscape, regardless of how it fares in the final count. 

Joy Purkayastha

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Analysis
Voting

Election phases: Drama as stars take the spotlight

April 22, 2014

On the looming fifth day of India's epic vote the destinies of two celebrity candidates will be decided. Ashok Malik contemplates what their real-life stories reveal of the political landscape.  

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Analysis
Campaign, Results

The Verdict: Ascendancy of a political outsider

May 16, 2014

Narendra Modi has never been part of India's cliquish political culture. But his BJP's aggressive, unwavering, focused strategy has capitalised on a dynasty's complacency and a nation's hopes. By Pradeep Taneja.

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Analysis
Campaign, Debates

India’s political scene

February 24, 2014

India's looming election has more in common with Australia than you might think.
Harsh Shrivastava

 

 
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Analysis
Voting

Election Phases: polling day dawns in the tea gardens of Assam

April 6, 2014

Voting begins in the epic 2014 Indian election tomorrow. In the first in a series profiling the character, history and expectations of the various regions as they get their turn to vote, Nirupama Subramanian visits the remote north-east.

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Voting, Logistics, Political participation

Poll Primer: the parties, the policies, the players

April 24, 2014

With the marathon 6-week vote now in the home stretch, get up to speed with the politics, the players, and the pretenders in the 2014 Indian election. A primer by Amitabh Mattoo and Nicholas Reece.

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Results

The Verdict: At a glance, the final numbers

May 20, 2014

The monumental scale of the BJP's "Modi-slide" - and the humiliation of the ruling Congress party - is explicit in contemplating the breakdown of seats in the next Indian Parliament. 

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Political participation, Voting

2014: democracy's year of living dangerously

February 24, 2014

With almost half the world's population set to cast a vote in this year, 2014 is shaping up as one of democracy's biggest (and most challanging) years.
Nick Reece

 

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Women, Campaign, Gender

Where are the women? Seen, but rarely heard

April 7, 2014

Despite the street protests over attacks on women in India in recent years, issues of violence, gender and women's representation have been largely lost in the election campaign, argues Swati Parashar.

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