India votes – Why the biggest election in history matters to you

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🗓️ 23 May 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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The upcoming Indian election will be the biggest in history, with one fifth of the world’s population voting. How consequential will it be – for the nation and the rest of the world too? Gavin Esler speaks to Rohan Venkat, consulting editor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Centre for the Advanced Study of India and editorial consultant at India’s Centre for Policy Research. • “India is an unusual democratic experiment. What happens in this election is important for democracy all across the South.” – Rohan Venkat • “This is one fifth of the population that we’re talking about. Whatever happens for India matters for all of humanity.” – Rohan Venkat We are sponsored by Indeed. Go to Indeed.com/bunker for £100 sponsored credit. www.patreon.com/bunkercast Written and presented by Gavin Esler. Producer: Eliza Davis Beard. Audio editor: Robin Williams. Managing editor: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. Music by Kenny Dickinson and artwork by James Parrett. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production. Instagram | Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:21.5	all dwarfed by the largest election in world
1:24.4	world history. India has an electorate of almost a billion people,
1:28.6	968 million voters. That's more than the EU, the US and UK combined. At stake in
1:36.7	the Indian general election taking place right now is not just the future of the
1:40.4	world's most populous country with a billion and a half citizens, but also the future
1:45.2	of a dynamic and growing economic and diplomatic superpower.
1:49.7	The Indian elections are so large and complicated they take place in seven stages. The first
1:55.0	stage began on April the 19th. The process to elect the 543 members of the
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