- Is Nitish Kumar really the development man for Bihar?
Many things in politics are 'managed'. One of the current 'managed' successes is the perception that Nitish Kumar is doing wonders in Bihar. If you compare his work with the Lalloo Yadav regime, then of course there is n…
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- Every neta has a fixer
The two big parties, the BJP and Congress have multiple fixers and money arrangers. In the last decade, Sitaram Kesari was the quintessential money manager at Congress. During this decade, the fixer has become savvy. He …
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- Mere paas film star hai: how useless film stars are for democracy
Apart from Sunil Dutt (Congress), Shatrughan Sinha (BJP) and to some extent Vinod Khanna (BJP), NTR and MGR in South few film stars have managed to translate their popularity to a lasting political career.
In 20…
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- Cometh the elections, cometh the slogans
Those who write the slogans on the walls (may God have mercy on them]) and on the posters and whose words are repeated through loudspeakers during campaigning season are the unsung micro-Haiku poet/heroof modern India.
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- Brahmins in Indian Politics
We have had quite a few Brahmin Prime Ministers, starting with Nehru and then his descendents. Atal Bihari Vajpayee was the last Brahmin minister and looking at the existing political candidates and the trends, there wil…
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- What may happen after these elections
These are early times for a democracy. If America is our template, as it is in most things for the educated middle class, then a two-party system, one party slightly left-of-centre, one-slightly right, will be best, but …
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- Predictions for the 2009 general elections from Arun Nehru
During every major election, Arun Nehru, who was a Minister during Rajiv Gandhi's time does his predictions. His predictions for 2009 elections are in. The Deccan Chronicle carries the table, from which this image has …
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- Predictions: No clear front-runner in the 2009 elections so far
The Hindu reports that both AC Nielsen and CSDS polls are inconclusive. Moreover, it is worth keeping in mind that opinion polls are not what they used to be. People might say one thing to pollsters and do the opposite…
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- Fan Clubs ijn South India and Elections
These are excerpts from an older blog post written by Gopala Ravindran, but worth reading if you are interested to know what is it about the numerous fan clubs and exotic sycophancy in South India:
Fan clubs in Tamil Na…
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- Using Tata Nano for election posturing
This blogger says the success (?) of Tata Nano is yet another slap for Mamata Banerjee's posturing at Singur which drove Tata out of West Bengal:
The blogger writes,
In the end, the market prevailed. Tata built…
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- A simpleguide to General Elections 2009 in India
The 15th Lok Sabha Elections 2009 will take place in 5 phases, on April 16, 23, 30, May 7 and 13, and the new Central government will take office in New Delhi on June 2, 2009.
There are four major political groups vyi…
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- A Roundup of online presence of indian politicians and political parties
One place where the BJP does fulfill its self-given mandate of being the party with a difference is the online media. The party and its politicians are way ahead of other Indian politicians in using online media to sprea…
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- A Roundup of Digital Marketing Campaigns during the elections so far
More than 10,000 crore Rupees will be spent by politicians during the General Elections 2009. That is $ 2 billion. One thing is sure though: the public may not benefit in the long run, marketers, mobile companies, tv cha…
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