Backstory: Elections Are Contributing to the Coarseness of Our Public Discourse
A fortnightly column from The Wire s public editor.
File photo of Amit Shah and Narendra Modi. Photo: PTI
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One of the major markers of Indian democracy has been the relatively uninterrupted conduct of elections. Much computer time has been spent describing, analysing and reporting on this exercise which has taken place with admirable regularity since 1952. S.Y. Quraishi, former chief election commissioner of India, begins his 2014 book,
An Undocumented Wonder The Making of the Great Indian Election, with a quote from V. Mitchell’s news report on the 2009 general election for the