Reading Time: 2 mins In our last post, we have seen the extent to which parties give tickets to SC/ST candidates in non-reserved constituencies. In this post, we will compare the performance of SC/ST candidates with their general counterparts. […]

Reading Time: 2 mins In India, a large number of Parliament seats are reserved for SC / Dalits (84 seats – 15.5%) and ST / Tribes (47 seats – 8.7%). In addition, SC/ST leaders are also elected from non-reserved

Reading Time: 4 mins Once we had the design and back-end technology running, it was time to build the live election results page itself. Sever-side or client-side? The key considerations here were speed and load. We wanted users to

Reading Time: 4 mins On 16 May, we pulled off an interesting technical feat: serving 10 million pages worth of election results in real-time, staying ahead of many channels or websites. We worked in partnership with CNN-IBN and Microsoft.

Reading Time: 4 mins At 10 million hits in a single day, the live Elections 2014 results page is the largest site that we’ve designed. This was served by a single virtual machine. This is the story of how