Democracy on the Road: A 25 Year Journey through India is a 2019 book by Indian investor Ruchir Sharma. It is an examination of Indian elections, and politics, in the post-independence period, with a specific focus on state and national elections between 1998 and 2018. [1] It is based on annual road expeditions that Sharma organized and participated in, along with a group of journalists, to track elections in India. [2] [3]
The Communist Party of India is the oldest communist political party in India, one of the eight national parties in the country. The CPI was formed on 26 December 1925 at Kanpur.
Narendra Damodardas Modi is an Indian politician serving as the 14th and current prime minister of India since 2014. He was the chief minister of Gujarat from 2001 to 2014 and is the Member of Parliament for Varanasi. Modi is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its National Democratic Alliance (NDA). He is also a member of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a Hindu nationalist volunteer organisation. He is the first prime minister born after India's independence in 1947, the second non-Congress one to win two consecutive terms after Atal Bihari Vajpayee and the first from outside the Congress to win both terms with a majority in the Lok Sabha.
The Emergency in India was a 21-month period from 1975 to 1977 when Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had a state of emergency declared across the country. Officially issued by President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed under Article 352 of the Constitution because of the prevailing "internal disturbance", the Emergency was in effect from 25 June 1975 until its withdrawal on 21 March 1977. The order bestowed upon the Prime Minister the authority to rule by decree, allowing elections to be cancelled and civil liberties to be suspended. For much of the Emergency, most of Indira Gandhi's political opponents were imprisoned and the press was censored. Several other human rights violations were reported from the time, including a mass forced sterilization campaign spearheaded by Sanjay Gandhi, the Prime Minister's son. The Emergency is one of the most controversial periods of independent India's history.
Amarnath Temple is a Hindu shrine located in Jammu and Kashmir, India. The cave is situated at an altitude of 3,888 m (12,756 ft), about 141 km (88 mi) from Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir, reached through Pahalgam town. The shrine represents an important part of Hinduism, and is considered to be one of the holiest shrines in Hinduism. The cave is surrounded by snowy mountains. The cave itself is covered with snow most of the year, except for a short period of time in summer when it is open to pilgrims. See, Amarnath temple opening & closing date. Hundreds of thousands of Hindus and other devotees make an annual pilgrimage to the Amarnath cave across challenging mountainous terrain.
Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) is a right-wing all India student organisation affiliated to the Hindu nationalist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). They claim themselves to be India's largest student organisation with more than three million members.
Kamalesh Sharma, GCVO is an Indian diplomat. He was the 5th Secretary General of the Commonwealth of Nations from 2008 to 2016, having previously served as the High Commissioner for India in London. He is currently serving as the Chancellor Emeritus of Queen's University Belfast.
Dr. C. P. Joshi is an Indian politician. He is a member of the Indian National Congress. He is the current and 15th Speaker of the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly. Previously He was the Member of Parliament of India from Bhilwara in the 15th Lok Sabha. He was one of the first 19 members of India's new cabinet sworn in on 22 May 2009, despite being a first-time member of the Lok Sabha. He was also a Cabinet Minister in Government of Rajasthan led by Ashok Gehlot (1998-2003).
Kapil Sharma is an Indian stand-up comedian, television presenter, actor and producer known for hosting The Kapil Sharma Show. He previously hosted the television comedy shows Comedy Nights with Kapil and Family Time with Kapil.
Ruchir Joshi is an Indian writer, a filmmaker and a columnist for The Telegraph, India Today as well as other publications. He is best known for his debut novel titled The Last Jet-Engine Laugh (2001). He is also the editor of India's first anthology of contemporary erotica Electric Feather: The Tranquebar Book of Erotic Stories, published by Tranquebar Press/Westland.
Ruchir Sharma is an Indian investor and fund manager who has written widely on global economics and politics. As chief global strategist and head of the Emerging Markets Equity team at Morgan Stanley Investment Management, he manages $20 billion in assets under management. A longtime columnist for newspapers and magazines around the world, Sharma is the author of The 10 Rules of Successful Nations, The Rise and Fall of Nations: Forces of Change in a Post-Crisis World and Breakout Nations.
Breakout Nations: In Pursuit of the next Economic Miracles is a 2012 book written by Ruchir Sharma. The book discusses his views on emerging markets and his travel through these countries. Sales of the book has broken records and it has become an international best seller. Breakout Nations has received extensive global media coverage, including The Economist, and The Wall Street Journal.
Rajesh Sharma is an Indian film actor who acts in Hindi and Bengali films. He mainly acts in Bollywood & Tollywood films and his well-known Hindi films include Special 26, M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story, One Day: Justice Delivered, a negative advocate's role in Batla House, etc. He is well popular for delivering best roles in Bengali films and over the years his films were all best in terms of box office collections. Some of his well-known Tollywood movies are Pratibad, Gyarakal, 8:08 Er Bongaon Local, Tulkalam, Kranti, Sathi, Dada Thakur, etc.
Mahesh Kumar Sharma is an Indian politician belonging to the Bharatiya Janata Party. He was elected in the 2014 Indian general election from Gautam Buddha Nagar. He is a physician by profession and owns the Kailash Group of Hospitals based in Noida. On 12 November 2014, he was appointed as a Minister of State for Culture and Tourism and Civil Aviation. He has also served as the first MLA of Noida vidhan sabha in Uttar Pradesh.
Elections in the Republic of India in 2018 included by-elections to the Lok Sabha, elections to the Rajya Sabha, elections to of eight states and numerous other by-elections to state legislative assemblies, councils and local bodies.
"None of the Above" has been provided as an option to the voters of India in most elections since 2009. The Supreme Court in PUCL vs. Union of India Judgement 2013 directed the use of NOTA in the context of direct elections to the Lok Sabha and the respective state assemblies. By expressing a preference for none of the above, a citizen can choose not to vote for any candidates who are contesting the elections. The vote does not hold any electoral value: even if a majority of votes are cast the candidate with the largest vote share would be declared the winner. The NOTA option was first used in the 2013 assembly elections held in four states, and the Union Territory of Delhi. Since its introduction, NOTA has gained increasing popularity amongst the Indian electorate, securing more votes than the victory margin, for instance, in the Assembly Elections in Gujarat (2017), Karnataka (2018), Madhya Pradesh (2018) and Rajasthan (2018). NOTA enables the voter to show their inacceptance for the fielded candidates.
The Billionaire Raj: A Journey Through India's New Gilded Age, is a 2018 non-fiction book written by British author James Crabtree. The book is about wealth inequality in India, exploring Indian billionaires, the caste system and economic reform advocates. Crabtree is a journalist for Financial Times. The book has received mostly positive reviews.
Amit Ravindernath Sharma is an Indian director and producer working predominantly as a director of television commercials.
Little Things is an Indian romantic comedy streaming television series, created by Dhruv Sehgal, who also starred in the lead role along with Mithila Palkar. The series were directed by Ajay Bhuyan and Ruchir Arun and produced by Aditi Shrivastava, Anirudh Pandita and Ashwin Suresh of Dice Media. Its first season was premiered through the official YouTube channel of Dice Media, from 25 October 2016, to 22 November. Netflix later purchased the franchise and its second season, was premiered on 5 October 2018. A third season was released on 9 November 2019.
Communism in Nepal traces its roots back to the pro-democracy movement of 1951, and the subsequent overthrow of the autocratic Rana regime and the establishment of democracy in Nepal. The communist movement in Nepal has split into factions multiple times and multiple factions have come together into a single fold at times as well. It has a history of getting banned from open political discourse; as well as multiple instances of embracing guerrilla insurgency, most notably, the Maoist insurgency in the 1990s and early 2000s that led to the Nepalese Civil War, claiming at least 17,000 lives. After the Maoists and other main political parties formed a united coalition, launching a successful peaceful civil resistance against the dictatorial coup d'état by the monarchy, which resulted in the abolition of the monarchy and drafting of a new constitution affirming Nepal as a secular, federal, democratic republic striving towards democratic socialism, the two main communist parties of Nepal contested the first election according to the new constitution as a coalition, eventually leading to the unification of two parties with a strong majority in the federal parliament as well as six out of seven provinces of Nepal.
Neelum Sharma was an Indian anchor who was most well known as one of the founding anchors of Doordarshan and was a recipient of the Nari Shakti Puraskar, the highest civilian award for woman in India.
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