Indian students at Columbia University launch website on Lok Sabha election

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A group of Indian students in New York have created a website to track the upcoming general elections, promising to provide a comprehensive and "no high-brow and jargon-led" reportage of the event. The website, thefivefortyfive.com, is the brainchild of six students from Columbia School of Journalism. The name is derived from the number of seats in India's Lok Sabha though the website does explain a technicality: "some might say 543, but the President can nominate two members." (Read more)

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