Manish Chand | India Writes

MODI-fied India: Message behind Modi Mandate

May 16, 2014May 24, 2014 - by Manish Chand

May 16, 2014. It may sound a shade exaggerated to some, but historians will recall May 16 as the day when the people of India affirmed a new politics of national renaissance and renewal as the world’s most populous democracy voted for change and rejected dead clichés that had strangled and stupefied the nation for decades.

Connect Central Asia: Why Tajikistan matters to India

May 8, 2014May 14, 2014 - by Manish Chand

India’s connect to Central Asia in the middle of the election fever in the country, as telescoped in the May 7-9 visit of Foreign Secretary Sujatha Singh to Tajikistan, underlines the growing strategic importance of the resource-rich region.

East-West, North-South: Indian diplomacy’s 360 degree waltz amid ballot ballet

May 6, 2014May 8, 2014 - by Manish Chand

Amid the frenzy and fever of the world’s most colourful elections, India’s diplomacy is quietly and meaningfully humming along as the country’s foreign secretary and senior diplomats head east, west, north and south, in quest of new opportunities unleashed by a rapidly globalising world.

The ITEC Spirit: Sharing the art & skill of elections

April 30, 2014May 3, 2014 - by Manish Chand

It’s a journey without frontiers. Thirty people, 19 countries, one common mission: honing in on the art of holding elections and keeping the democratic fire burning.

Why world’s biggest carnival of democracy matters

April 12, 2014April 22, 2014 - by Manish Chand

The world’s biggest carnival of democracy is in full flow. It’s a carnival in every sense of the word – in terms of sheer drama, spectacle and colour, along with all that hurly-burly and exuberant noise, the parliamentary elections in India have set new benchmarks that are hard to match anywhere else in the world.