Podcast | Decoding 2019: The story of the first general election in India

Episode 1142,   May 02, 2019, 07:55 AM

As the largest democracy in the world trundles into the last phases of the national elections, it may be a good idea to look back and remember in this edition of Digging Deeper, the very first time the country went to the polls. And to cut past the WhatsApp fallacies that reinvent history via mass forwards to rephrase just how India chose its leaders for the first time.

The story of this "leap of faith" or "biggest gamble in human history" or "the greatest miracle of democracy," with me Rakesh Sharma, right here on Moneycontrol.