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Friday, November 14, 2025
TopicIndian Elections

Topic: Indian Elections

6 myths around EVM tampering

In 'An Undocumented Wonder', SY Quraishi answers the biggest questions about Indian elections, which have been called the 'biggest management event in the world'.

SubscriberWrites: Electoral optics and economy

Political parties must learn to differentiate between welfare schemes and freebies; while welfare schemes positively impact lives, non-merit freebies are not a fair practice.

SubscriberWrites: Democracy in South Asia

Indian electoral system badly needs election reforms. The good old FPTP system was the right choice to enter into the world of democracy. It has outlived its utility.

Chidambaram to Owaisi, politicians talk ‘rightward shift’ in voter sentiment at Sardesai book launch

Launching his book, Sardesai dwelt on his experience of covering elections and said they had turned into 'candy shops' with electorate getting everything from mixers, grinders to cash.

Elon Musk wades into EVM debate giving fresh ammo to Oppn, Rahul calls voting machines ‘black box’

Former MoS Rajeev Chandrasekhar took to X to defend EVMs used in Indian polls saying they are isolated from any network or media. Tesla CEO responded saying, 'anything can be hacked'.

SubscriberWrites: Can we please have a better Nation – Indian elections & the Garba of Democracy

Tale through the eyes of an optimistic Indian minority.

Fact Check: No New York Times article praising elections in India, comment shared with false claim

The text being shared was seen in the comments section under an NYT article that was published in 2009 on the elections & strategies employed by Congress & other parties.

Just how staggering is the logistic of conducting Lok Sabha election in India? 1st to 18th

Over 960 million electors, 470 million of them women, will soon elect 543 Lok Sabha MPs by casting their ballots in 1.2 million booths overseen by 15 million officials across 28 states and nine Union territories in a multi-phase election.

Indian elections have evolved a lot like arranged marriages. Technology is the disruptor

Technology has enabled voters today to share notes and build a consensus on who is ‘deserving’.

On Camera

Virat, Anushka, Bumrah selling sarias & cement, dentists, vets, Bihar walls painted in ‘rurbanisation’

Over generations, Bihar’s bane has been its utter lack of urbanisation. But now, even Bihar is urbanising. Or let’s say, rurbanising. Two decades under Nitish Kumar have created a new elite in its cities.

Wealth nears $99 trillion, still Asia’s rich don’t have succession plans

Much of this wealth is tied to founder-led businesses that employ millions and help anchor regional economies.

Turkey blocks transport of Apache choppers to India through its airspace, new route being worked out

Indian govt officials last month skipped Turkish National Day celebrations in Delhi, in a message to Ankara following its support for Islamabad, particularly during Operation Sindoor.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.