How to Win an Indian Election (Penguin, '19) is an intro to politics and how it works. How parties, citizens, and other stakeholders operate in the political realm.
The Art of Conjuring Alternate Realities (HarperCollins, '21)
explains how parties and nation states shape your information environment, and in effect shape your reality.
Anything you "know" and who you are is a product of the information you consume... shaping that shapes your thoughts. The book explains how that is done.
TACAR, as @iam_anandv loves to point out, also predicted a LOT of things years ago - including providing a roadmap for how an... ahem... authoritarian leader's control over information can be broken, and what such a leader would do to prevent his grip over reality from breaking.
Looking into city planning and real estate in Delhi is a different sort of hellhole!
So much of Delhi is illegal. Even legal areas have all sorts of illegal construction. Municipality sends notice, people get court stays for decades! So bad, most builders just build illegally!
Even more crazy... people advise other to encroach! And people are like itna toh chalta hai while building totally illegally extended structures.
Areas with crores of people living don't have proper water and sanitation! No trash collection is super common. This is the capital!
Parking? You have to be insane to think there will be any! Everyone parks on the roads, leaving just enough space for one car at a time to pass.
Most illegal areas are two wheelers only, this is the posh Delhi - no parking. Just enough space to crawl through.
I now have a working theory on ECI reluctance to disclose form 17C and voter turnout data.
There will be no mismatch. If there are more votes in EVMs than votes polled, all hell would break lose. It'd be the end of India's democracy tag and no one would risk losing the tag...
Instead, what we would see is voting is down in very specific, targeted booths.
Granular turnout data would have told us how opposition votes are being suppressed!
This'll still come out, but now after results, and no one would be able to do anything or care as much.
If the pattern was figured out now, there would be huge outcry. Instead all we see is few complaints of voter suppression. Machines not working. Police and goons causing disruptions... And overall decline in voting percent.
The narrative was voter apathy, lack of enthusiasm...
Listened to arguments in the Supreme Court over #EVM #VVPAT, people were terrible at explaining the issues.
We know for a fact the EVM is not standalone. Each one gets connected to a computer! It's a windows software to load candidate names and symbols! A thread.
ECI keeps saying standalone as a reason for it being unhackable, except it isn't. It's connected to computers - all EVMs have to be, for them to have the candidate name and symbol to print.
Then claim EVM has had the same glass, and it's not been made black and totally opaque...
This is demonstrably false. The different glass versions can be seen on the ECI YouTube channel itself!