Inside the 2024 Indian Election with Dr. Anirvan Chowdhury

On April 19, voters in India begin to head to the polls for national elections that will stretch through May. The incumbent BJP faces a new opposition alliance, again under the leadership of the Indian National Congress. What will the election signal about the overall health of democracy in the country? And how does the BJP, a party of Hindu nationalism, mobilize women into its political project? Drs. Anirvan Chowdhury (Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University) and Taha Rauf (Postdoctoral Fellow, CAD) join the pod to put the campaign in context.