Umpiring a gigantic exercise

“It is truly the greatest show on Earth, an ode to a diverse and democratic ethos… an inspiration to all the world,” commented The New York Times, on General Elections 2009. What makes India's elections unique and special? Is it the size, the magnitude, the diversity, the complexities, or something of all these? Or is it about the boldness of the democratic enterprise from a time when there was no shortage of sceptics who said India's tryst with democracy could not possibly last: India's literacy rate in 1947 was 16 per cent.

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