India’s electoral constituencies remain frozen in time: they still represent populations based on the 1971 census. While our population has grown by leaps and bounds, the number of constituencies have remained the same. Consequently, while each Lok Sabha Member of Parliament represented approximat...
What can manifestos tell us about India’s leading political parties? Word frequency analyses of the 2014 Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Indian National Congress (INC) election manifestos yield the following results:
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These figures illustrate two key findin...
In this Financial Times article, Reuben Abraham, CEO and Senior Fellow at IDFC Institute, is quoted speaking on India's plans to build the world's largest statue, that of the 17th century Hindu warrior king Shivaji. Excerpts:
"'From an economic perspective, obviously it makes no sense at all...
Praveen Chakravarty, Visiting Senior Fellow, talks about "Decoding the Uttar Pradesh Elections" at an IndiaSpend Data Journalism Workshop in April 2017.
