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The Straight Dope FAQ on Indian Elections 2009

Or what news­pa­pers and media will not tell you about the 2009 Indian Par­lia­men­tary Elec­tion.
Will the new gov­ern­ment go in for reform?

Absolutely! Though there may be a slight dif­fer­ence between what every­one under­stands by reform and what the gov­ern­ment means by reform. From the government’s per­spec­tive reform means re-forming the gov­ern­ment. The party in power

Rulebook for Indian TV News Producers

Any new­bie TV News Pro­ducer who wants to com­pete with the top Indian news chan­nels will be well advised to com­ply with the fol­low­ing guidelines:

All news is BREAKING NEWS. This also means that if there is no news, BREAK all jour­nal­ism rules to get BREAKING NEWS.
TV news chan­nels are in the busi­ness of TRPs,

Virtues of Politicians

I’m sick and tired of all the politician-bashing that blog­gers seem addicted to these days. Why do we have to be so crit­i­cal all the time? Why not see the glass half-full? Decid­ing to be an opti­mist, I present “Virtues of Politi­cians”:
Politi­cians have great ora­tory skills.
Enthralling thou­sands of peo­ple at ral­lies who stand lis­ten­ing in