The Big Picture
Modi’s dream of delivering a developed India at heart of next month’s elections
India is changing at extraordinary speed and has more billionaires than anywhere except the US and China
The reach of democracy in India is extraordinarily wide. Citizens of the world’s most populous country began voting on Thursday in a general election, and it will be quite the spectacle. Some 969 million Indians are eligible to vote, and polling takes place on specified days up to 1 June. If everything goes to plan – as it invariably does – the result will be announced on 4 June.
The logistical demands of an Indian ...
