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...Reported by Meenakshi Ganguly/ Bombay, Saritha Rai/ Bangalore and Maseeh Rahman/New Delhi
...drama was greeted with a familiar shrug over in India, the world's largest democracy. "Even Laloo Yadav, the local politician whose name is a byword for corruption and electoral chaos, couldn't have dreamed up the spectacle we're seeing in Florida now," says TIME New Delhi contributor Maseeh Rahman. "It's given people here a sense that at a grassroots level, elections in the U.S. aren't that different from elections in India, particularly when it's a close fight - the victor is not always the guy who would have won in a fair contest." The suggestion that...
...drama was greeted with a familiar shrug over in India, the world's largest democracy. "Even Laloo Yadav, the local politician whose name is a byword for corruption and electoral chaos, couldn't have dreamed up the spectacle we're seeing in Florida now," says TIME New Delhi contributor Maseeh Rahman. "It's given people here a sense that at a grassroots level, elections in the U.S. aren't that different from elections in India, particularly when it's a close fight - the victor is not always the guy who would have won in a fair contest." The suggestion that...
...With reporting by Meenakshi Ganguly/Jaipur and Maseeh Rahman/ New Delhi
...nuclear. "Some thinkers fairly close to the government argue that the U.S. began to take China seriously only after Beijing developed nuclear weapons in the '60s, and that India had to do the same to get Washington to treat it with respect," says TIME New Delhi correspondent Maseeh Rahman. "There's a basic feeling in New Delhi that the U.S. doesn't take India seriously - after all, the leading Republican presidential candidate couldn't even name India's prime minister...