Archive for March, 2019
March 25, 2019
The Verdict: Decoding India’s Elections
“Democracy lies at the very core of every Indian’s DNA”, writes Prannoy Roy and Dorab Sopariwala, one of the most well-known faces of election forecasting,[…]
March 8, 2019
How much to budget for Poll Campaign
Every other day, I read about enormous sums required for election campaigns. Political Scientists have estimated that Assembly Election campaigns cost anywhere between Rs. 2[…]
March 8, 2019
Is the Interim Budget a Voter’s Budget?
Budget 2019 has gotten a lot of attention as it moved beyond the normal vote-on-account, to seemingly full fledged budget. There were three significant announcements:[…]
March 8, 2019
What should be the ideal size of Lok Sabha
Here’s the data for number of seats for each election year. 1952 – 489 seats 1957 – 494 seats 1962 – 524 seats 1967 –[…]
March 8, 2019
Retired Civil Servants write to ECI on EVM Controversy
We are a group of former civil servants of the All India and Central Services who have worked for decades with the central and state[…]
March 8, 2019
The Green Horn Party
Is the greenhouse effect only gas, or is it a bomb waiting to explode? And if greenhouse and the environment is as important as it[…]