Poonam Agarwal

India Inked (eBook, ePUB)

Elections in the World's Largest Democracy

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

On an average, India has two to five elections in any given year. With 15 million polling staff, 5.5 million electronic voting machines, officers trekking across glaciers, forests, deserts, riding elephants and camels, travelling by boats and helicopters to ensure the last standing Indian citizen gets to cast their vote, the Indian general election is a beast unto itself. In the summer of 2024, 969 million Indians cast their votes and the incumbent Narendra Modi was elected prime minister for a third consecutive term.

When Poonam Agarwal first began reporting on the electoral bonds scheme, she had not foreseen that her investigative work would imminently make history in one of the most landmark Supreme Court judgements. In her trailblazing pursuit, she chased the big questions that the media, courts and citizens had no easy answers to.

Just how big is the Indian electoral machinery? Are money and muscle power in bed together? Was the electoral bonds scheme 'one of the biggest legalised robberies'? What tools do political parties assemble for campaigning and propaganda? And what will the imminent exercise of redrawing of electoral boundaries, muscular calls for 'one nation one election', and the women's reservation bills mean for the fabric of the Indian polity?

With insights into the forbidden world of election war rooms, on how electoral strategies are formulated and rules bent, what works with voters on the ground and what simply doesn't, Poonam Agarwal's India Inked is nothing short of a revelation into the inner workings of politics in the world's largest democracy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Februar 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9789361313967
• Artikelnr.: 73552666

Autorenporträt

Poonam Agarwal is an Emmy-nominated journalist who has been covering Indian society and politics for two decades. She is a recipient of the Ramnath Goenka Award; BBC News Award for outstanding original investigative journalism; Best Investigative Journalist at The News Television Awards; the CNN Young Journalist Award, among others. Her investigative documentary on loan app scam with the BBC World Service titled 'The Trap: India's Deadliest Scam' has received wide and critical acclaim. She has also written for the Global Investigative Journalist Network and delivered the prestigious Gavin MacFayden Memorial lecture at the Centre for Investigative Journalism in London in 2024.

Poonam started her career as a TV journalist in 2005 with NDTV. Subsequently, she worked with Times Now and was later the National Editor of Investigations at The Quint. Her award-winning work on elections and electoral bonds made history in helping the Indian Supreme Court deliver a judgement that struck down the Electoral Bonds Scheme. She tweets on X as @poonamjourno