
Electoral Math with Rama Bijapurkar, Shankkar Aiyar and Yashwant Deshmukh
With the Indian general elections starting in a few days, tune in to this Special Edition which features a discussion on technology, Identity and aspiration in relation to voter behaviour.

On Episode 271 of The Core Report, we feature a discussion between financial journalist Govindraj Ethiraj, veteran economic journalist and New Indian Express columnist Shankkar Aiyar, business adviser, researcher, author, and academic Rama Bijapurkar, and founder-director at CVoter Yashwant Deshmukh about the upcoming elections, voter behaviour, and much more.
SHOW NOTES
- (00:00) Intro
- (02:06) Key findings of the CVoter survey (Yashwant Deshmukh)
- (04:19) Voter Demographics (Rama Bijapurkar)
- (09:08) Voter Engagement (Shankkar Aiyar)
- (12:47) Voter Aspirations (Rama Bijapurkar)
- (14:50) Voter Aspiration vs Experience I (Rama Bijapurkar)
- (17:53) Voter Aspiration vs Experience II (Shankkar Aiyar)
- (23:09) The idea of India I (Shankkar Aiyar)
- (25:04) The idea of India II (Rama Bijapurkar)
- (27:29) Voter Self-Identification (Rama Bijapurkar)
- (29:20) How are politicians optimising voter data and technology
- (32:14) Last words
With the Indian general elections starting in a few days, tune in to this Special Edition which features a discussion on technology, Identity and aspiration in relation to voter behaviour.
Govindraj Ethiraj is a television & print journalist and also founder of IndiaSpend.org & Boomlive.in, data journalism and fact check initiatives. He very recently launched a business news initiative, www.thecore.in as Editor. Previously, he was Founder-Editor in Chief of Bloomberg TV India, a 24-hours business news service launched out of Mumbai in 2008. Prior to setting up Bloomberg TV India, he worked with Business Standard newspaper as Editor (New Media) with a specific mandate of integrating the newspaper’s news operations with its digital or web platform. He also spent around five years each with CNBC-TV18 & The Economic Times. He is a Fellow of The Aspen Institute, Colorado, a McNulty Prize Laureate 2018 & a winner of the BMW Foundation Responsible Leadership Awards for 2014.

