India holds general elections next month, so the paper is preparing a graphic to show party support. It's not that interesting a topic to research, but I did come across a random fact for your delectation - in India, political parties must be represented by a symbol (I guess the equivalent of the party logos over here).
Not that fascinating maybe - the recognised parties have fairly standard bicycles, elephants and leaves - but check out the list of symbols that are still unclaimed (at the bottom of the PDF). Anyone fancy voting for a political party that uses an electric pole to represent itself, or a ceiling fan? How about a sewing machine? Can't see many voters turning out for the walking stick party (what does that say about your approach to politics?), or the battery torch one. I would definitely vote for the cake party though!
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From my one brush with Indian politics there must be a party whose symbol is a buring autorickshaw!
ReplyDelete*burning*, natch.
ReplyDeleteNow that's a story I want to hear!
ReplyDeleteThe time before last I was in Mumbai, this stuff was going on...
ReplyDeletehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19_October_2008_All-India_Railway_Recruitment_Board_examination_attack
The people from our office over there called us one Morning and told us to stay in the hotel all day, as there were riots going on near the office, and Thackeray's supporters had set fire to some autorickshaws and attacked a bus or something.
The next day things had calmed down enough for us to go into work, but in the afternoon things heated up as they were transporting Thackeray to court for a hearing near the office. We stayed at work, despite them saying we could go home, but when we left that evening our driver thought he was in Grand Theft Auto or something on the way back to the hotel. The journey is usually torturously slow, but he was obviously more than a little twitchy and floored it...
[It's Jon, BTW. My Dad said he saw you and your mum the weekend before last in Durham.]