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Arundhati Roy: Is India on a Totalitarian Path?
As voting begins in India in the largest elections the world has ever seen, we spend the hour with Indian novelist and essayist Arundhati Roy.
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Ramifications of India’s Choice in the National Elections Now Taking Place
India cast its first votes for the 2014 general elections in the northeastern state of Assam Monday morning. The results of the current election could have wide-ranging consequences that …
Indian Parliamentary Elections – A Primer With Vijay Prashad
This week, the Indians will begin the month-long process of electing their Lok Sabha, the general parliamentary elections in which 543 seats are being contested. Four hundred million of …
Bells Toll in Temple Town as India Braces for 2014 Elections
The world's most populous democracy will go to the polls from April 7 to May 12 to elect the lower House of parliament and ultimately determine the - at …
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Sun Shines on Forest Women
The forest has always been their home and their source of sustenance. Now, these women are tapping the sun that shines through it.
US Readies for Modi Ahead of 2014 India Elections as Indian Media Becomes Campaign Focus
India's political parties have avoided substantive issues in favor of finger-pointing at the media.
The World Should Be Watching India’s “Common Man” Coup
A few months ago, India's Aam Aadmi Party was a curiosity; now, it's a call for pro-democracy movements elsewhere to step up their game.
India’s Arab Spring in Winter 2014
When Delhi state's November elections brought the new anticorruption Aam Admi Party to power, calculations about India's upcoming national elections were upset, and a previously narrow field suddenly widened.
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How Global Day of Rage Fueled Solidarity Protests for India’s LGBT Community
Will this bring forward the much-needed revision to the law? Many aren't holding their breath.
What’s Worse Than a Nuclear War?
What could be worse than a nuclear war? A nuclear famine following a nuclear war.