Illustration by Gayatri
What an eventful week! Full of noise, tweets and finally ending with a tweetergate! Twitter took its first toll in Indian politics – atleast it all started with a tweet.
But last week actually started with khap-shup.
In love? Are you on the verge of falling in love? Hold on. All is not fair...
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My friend wanted to join politics. Thanks to multi-party democracy, In India we have no dearth for parties.
So he joined a party. He had good oratory skills. His caste algorithm matched with potential vote bank so no one asked him why he joined the party.
First time he took the mike “I am proud...
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Someone tweeted Shashi Tharoor:
"Tell us minister, next time you travel to Kerala, will it be cattle class?"
And our MoS tweeted back
"Absolutely, in cattle class out of solidarity with all our holy cows."
O boy! That would have rattled the netas of his own party and God bless our dear MoS with lady luck...
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Election 2009 has broken the back of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) , the supposed to be the part of difference and the second largest opposition party of India. Defeats and victories are part of democratic process. Defeats should lead to introspection , analysis to identify the reasons for the defeat and find straregies...
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The Budget ‘09 is presented today in parliament by Pranab Mukherjee and by now all the television channels are having field day analyzing , reanalyzing , debating and debating again on what was debated , talked in length , breadth and all the geometrical permutations possible and if you are common man but with...
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May 13
The Great Indian Political Battle
The Final phase of polling.
86 seats
10.8 Crore electorate
1,432 Candidates
0.12 million polling station
0.5 million polling staff
7 states & 2 UT
( Parts of Jammu & Kashmir , Punjab , UP , West Bengal , and whole of Himachal Pradesh , Tamil nadu , Uttarkhand , Pondichery and Chandigargh )
Key...
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May 7 , 2009
The Great Indian Political Battle
4th phase of Indian General Election .
7 states and National Capital Territory ( Delhi )
85 seats
95 million voters
1,315 candidates
0.13 million polling station
0.6 million polling staffs
All the seats of Delhi , Rajasthan and Haryana and one seat in J & K and part of Punjab , UP...
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The Great Indian Political Battle
April 30 , 2009
Third Phase of Election.
9 states and 2 Union territories
( Jammu and Kashmir , UP , MP , Maharashtra , Gujarat , Karnataka , Bihar , Sikkim Dadra & Nagar haveli , Daman & Diu )
144 million voters
1567 candidates
0.17 million polling stations
Key Contestants : Sonia Gandhi , HD...
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The Great Indian Political Battle – The Second phase
April 23 , 2009
12 states.
195 million eligible voters.
2041 candidates.
2,22,350 polling stations
Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Goa, Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Orissa, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh and Jharkhand
Key Contestants : Rahul Gandhi , Sharad Pawar , Sushma Swaraj , HD Kumaraswamy , Captain Gopinath...
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The tear drop shaped island in the Indian Ocean is literally in tears and soaked in blood now. Tears of hapless Tamil civilians and their blood.
Thousands of poor , hapless , abandoned Tamils are caught in the battle zone between LTTE and Sri Lankan forces. Ironically , one force that arouse from within...
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