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By Sunetra Choudhury

Mandya de Gandu

Monday April 13, 2009, Mandya, India

I think I love covering campaign trails in South India. Apart from the very small factor of not understanding what the hell anyone is saying to anyone. It doesn't matter, I think. After all, the spoken word is just one...

In Kasergod

Thursday April 9, 2009, India

How is it that we go to such small places and they are so rich in their political tradition, so rich with stories, that we feel we do not have enough time to tell them all? When we were starting...

Voting for change...but

Thursday April 9, 2009, India

My earlier entry was a little too angry. It's because it was written while I was sitting at the dam site, looking at the beautiful Sindh River clashing sharply with ugly reality. I just couldn't comprehend how foolish politicians thought...

The flipside of friendliness

Thursday April 9, 2009, India

Okay, I spoke too soon. Apparently familiarity also means pushy politicians. I just met Jitendra Deshprabhu. He is the Viscount of Pernem (some colonial title) and the NCP-Congress' candidate for North Goa. Mr Deshprabhu perhaps thought that being Goan royalty...

Bharatpur- the starting point

Thursday April 9, 2009, India

Never before has a dhaba lunch meant so much. It's not because we stopped at 'Murthal Super Dhaba' 70 kms from Delhi, definitely not because we were in Murthal which has THE best parathas ever on GT road. We were...

Goa, in a different perspective

Thursday April 9, 2009, India

I just had lunch with the Miranda family in South Goa. Lovely as they were, Mrs Miranda and her friend were also angry campaigners. They confessed to being the odd ones in a laidback land. Why are they angry? Because...

Feisty Rajasthani women and Gujjar votes

Thursday April 9, 2009, India

The lights wouldn't work, the talkback failed and we got ourselves the rowdiest onlookers in Bharatpur. But in the end we managed to put out the very first edition of the Election Express and it wasn't half bad! The people...

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Sunetra Choudhury

Sunetra Choudhury started her career as a reporter with The Indian Express in 1999. When she left to join TV in 2002, she was heading the Delhi reporting team that would bring out Newsline. After a brief stint in hindi in Star News, she joined NDTV in 2003. Apart from doing investigative stories, Sunetra has been covering elections since UP by-elections in 2000. While she followed the Congress party in Delhi, she spent six weeks in Gujarat covering 2007 assembly polls, apart from UP and MP assembly polls.