Hundred things to know and debate before you vote

By: Hindol SenguptaMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: Uttar Pradesh HarperCollins 2014Description: 242p. color illustrationsISBN: 9789351362210Subject(s): politics | current affairs Election process-India VotingDDC classification: 324.954 Summary: One of the biggest elections in the history of independent India is upon us. An election that could transform India and set the bedrock for the future. This book is a shout-out, a call to action to talk about the things that matter—or should matter — from financial scams to climate change, women’s rights to parliamentary spends. After all, if a democracy has to work, the agenda needs to be set by voters as much as by political parties.Here are some of the people who told us what we should be talking about: How to create jobs Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw The debt situation Lord Meghnad Desai What Dalits really want Chandra Bhan Prasad A different kind of economics Devinder Sharma About Article 370 Haseeb Drabu AIDS and gay rights Anjali Gopalan Squandered heritage and harassed tourists Aman Nath
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One of the biggest elections in the history of independent India is upon us. An election that could transform India and set the bedrock for the future. This book is a shout-out, a call to action to talk about the things that matter—or should matter
— from financial scams to climate change, women’s rights to parliamentary spends. After all, if a democracy has to work, the agenda needs to be set by voters as much as by political parties.Here are some of the people who told us what we should be talking about:

How to create jobs
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
The debt situation
Lord Meghnad Desai
What Dalits really want
Chandra Bhan Prasad
A different kind of economics
Devinder Sharma
About Article 370
Haseeb Drabu
AIDS and gay rights
Anjali Gopalan
Squandered heritage and harassed tourists
Aman Nath

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