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FOSS and Indian Politics

Posted by: Dinesh Shah on: March 16, 2009

Finally some good news came for Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) when a large Indian National Political Party, Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP), adopted key points of the FOSS Manifesto as BJP’s IT Vision Document prepared by the FOSS community of India. It is heartening to know that a mainstream political party recognizes and acknowledges [...]

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Electoral reforms

Posted by: Dinesh Shah on: November 16, 2008

In India we say and believe that we are governed by a democratically elected representatives. However, if you look at the numbers of voter turn-out and total vote share of wining candidates and political parties they represent, you will be shocked to know that neither individual candidates nor the parties they represent have vote share [...]

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