With national elections in the world’s most populous democracy, India, coming to an end earlier than had been predicted, the blogosphere is buzzing with analysis of the results.
Gaurav Mishra at Global Voices lists election reactions and observations that Indian voters posted on Twitter.
Kanishk Tharoor at OpenIndia talks about how the Indian media failed to correctly predict the election results.
Dr. Karan Thakur at India Times draws parallels between the 2009 Indian elections and the 2008 American elections.
At indianelections.blogadda.com you can see how social media tools such as YouTube and Flickr were used to discuss and document the 2009 Indian Elections.
What are your thoughts on the 2009 Indian elections?
After practicing law for a number of years, Michael Jay Friedman returned to school and earned a doctorate in U.S. political and diplomatic history. 
Michelle Austein Brooks is a U.S. government and politics writer who has covered three national elections for America.gov. 
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Comments (6)
Harishkrishnan
May 21, 2009 at 14:51 EDT
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For the first time, the candidates and traditional media alike took note of Social Media and used it. On our part, we put up http://indianelections.blogadda.com that tracked live tweets via tweeter, reactions from the blogosphere including the blogs from candidates, election photos and videos and even cartoon on Indian Elections from various media.
BJP, who now will be the opposition, had an online strategy. Even though it created lot of awareness, unfortunately, it didn’t make them win the elections. The good thing was the voter was well informed and most of the candidates will now be accountable.
Harishkrishnan
May 22, 2009 at 02:38 EDT
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Thank you Tanya for publishing my comment. I trust you would have had a look at http://indianelections.blogadda.com . I would appreciate if you would include this resource in your blog-post if you think it’s worthy enough.
I wanted to write an email to you but could not find a link to write to you directly. I’m sorry if this is not the best way to get in touch with you.
Tanya Brothen
America.gov Staff
May 22, 2009 at 15:40 EDT
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Great resource, Harishkrishnan! I’ve added it to the list.
Tanya
P V Ariel
June 1, 2009 at 06:16 EDT
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Tanya Brothen,
Thanks for sharing this.
Indian Election 2009 was entirely a different one comparing the previous ones, and the results too was an unexpected one even by the winning party as well as the media—print and web. All predictions by the top media fell flat on the floor. Congress party’s Young leadership by Rahul Gandhi played a vital role in this election by surprising all veteran leaders. Now the people of India put their hope in the young leadership and the experienced leadership of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
Still the Indian parliament need purification, a good number of the MPs are corrupt or tainted. Pl. read this link: http://knol.google.com/k/p-v-ariel or
http://www.associatedcontent.comarticle/1661380/cast_your_precious_vote_wisely_and.html
Philip Verghese Ariel, Secunderabad
Poonam
Location: Bangaore
July 3, 2009 at 05:36 EDT
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Hi, I wonder if this comment will get through but I wanted to thank you for this blog.
We have a project to do on ‘Broadcast media practices pre and post elections’, and this really helped me. Maybe I’ll link you to my article once I am done.
Thanks.
Tanya Brothen
America.gov Staff
July 5, 2009 at 15:44 EDT
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Hi Poonam, I’m glad my blog entry was able to help you with your project. And yes, your comment did get through