Mumbai, Nishant Shukla, Videos 30/4/2014
“WITH GREAT POWER
COMES GREAT RESPONSIBILITY”
Known as the Indian Spiderman, Gaurav Sharma says of himself: I decided to run for the Lok Sabha elections on the side of the young and against caste politics
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photogallery, Nirvair Singh, Politics 29/4/2014
THE SIKH HARVEST FESTIVAL
IN THE PUNJAB ELECTION CAMPAIGN
Polling day is fast approaching Punjab too. In the pre-election climate there’s a special festival that draws visitors from all over northern India. Baisakhi, the harvest festival, with its fairground, horses, elephants and Sikh warriors
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photogallery, Nikhil Roshan, Parties 28/4/2014
A WOMAN AS DALIT CHAMPION
TO HALT MODI’S HINDU NATIONALISM
While the media has been writing of Modi’s sweeping to victory in the elections in Uttar Pradesh as a foregone conclusion, one woman may pose a serious challenge to his rise. But will people stand behind Behenji?
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Kannagi Khanna, Parties, Politics 24/4/2014
THEMES AND PROGRAMS
A guide by images to the Indian election campaign
From price policies to the defense of minorities, from security to women's rights, even the availability of water and electricity for all, Kannagi Khanna, a photographer from the Gujarat, analyses and gives an image-by-image narration of the main Indian parties
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Mumbai, Nishant Shukla, Videos 22/4/2014
THE MUMBAI ELECTION RAP
“SEASON OF VOTES OR MANGOES OR WATER MELONS”
Green like grass or like the future. In this Nishant Shukla video, Tony Sebastian of the Doperdelics, one of the most well-known rap groups in Mumbai, sings about what these elections are for him: "They're selling silver here at the price of gold"
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Arko Datto, photogallery, Mumbai, Politics 19/4/2014
AN ELECTION GIFT?
IT’S A GYM IN THE SQUARE
New pavements, potholes fixed, hurriedly inaugurated bridges. Pre-election time has always been a time for giving towns a face-lift. But in a Mumbai district a local party has had a different idea: fitness equipment outdoors at the disposal of residents
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Avani Tanya, Bangalore, Videos 18/4/2014
TRANSGENDER ALLOWED TO VOTE AS A ‘THIRD’ SEX
«BUT I AM A WOMAN, NOT AN ‘OTHER’»
India's transgender minority have now been acknowledged, to vote under the third gender 'other'. However the news has not been received as a complete success yet: they want to be accepted for who they are, not castigated or separated from the rest of the population
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