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NRIs can vote, but migrants?
THE election-conducting machinery in our country has made persistent efforts over the past 10 years to enable six million voters, ...
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The declining aura of the Election Commission
In 2011, when then US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited India, she referred to the Election Commission of India ...
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Democracy and migrants
The tragedy of migrant workers following the nation-wide lockdown, imposed with four hours’ notice on March 24, is still fresh ...
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Lives or livelihoods?
When a society laments the loss of an economy more than the loss of human life, it doesn’t need a ...
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COVID-19 and democracy
It is not easy to get down to writing when the country, indeed the world, faces an uncertain future due ...
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Are EVMs and VVPATs reliable?
Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) were first conceived by the Election Commission of India (ECI) as a replacement for the ballot ...
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Are you a citizen?
Citizenship has been in the news for some time now and not necessarily for good reasons. The past month and a ...
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Who ‘represents’ us?
India is a representative democracy. We, the citizens, are expected and required to elect 543 members of the Lok Sabha ...
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The status of NOTA
The phrase ‘criminalisation of politics’ entered the Indian lexicon in 1993 when it was used by the Vohra Committee which ...
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My name is Bond, Electoral Bond
The heading of my column is, obviously, an adaptation of a famous sentence written by Ian Fleming, creator of the ...
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Picking up the tab for elections
Who should pay for elections? This is a perennial question. The theoretical or philosophical perspective is straightforward. People contest elections ...
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Why is 'one election' a priority?
Question: Who is likely to be the most knowledgeable on what electoral reforms are needed? Options: (a) Those who have ...
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