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'Not a neta. Only a magician with numbers can form government'
Updated On: 14 May, 2009 09:19 AM IST | | Jayita Bandyopadhyay
That's what a team of foreign correspondents from across the world feels after watching India vote
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That's what a team of foreign correspondents from across the world feels after watching India vote
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For many of them this was an initiation into the vast, complex jigsaw puzzle called Indian democracy; the first inside view of how the world's most populated country votes in a month-long, winding electoral process; how despite all odds, both domestic and neighbouring, it manages to elect a people's government to power in a poll that can be as fair as possible. The journey was supposed to offer answers. But it actually posed more questions.
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For many of them this was an initiation into the vast, complex jigsaw puzzle called Indian democracy; the first inside view of how the world's most populated country votes in a month-long, winding electoral process; how despite all odds, both domestic and neighbouring, it manages to elect a people's government to power in a poll that can be as fair as possible. The journey was supposed to offer answers. But it actually posed more questions.
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