[Scroll.in]Ramachandra Guha: Why 2024 is India’s most important election since 1977
Indians have begun voting in the country’s 18th general election. Of the 17 previous iterations, two were particularly important. One was the first general election, held in 1951-1952. That exercise was widely mocked by sceptics who believed that Indians were too poor, too divided, and too illiterate to be ...