Students launch website on Indian Election

Six Indian Journalism students studying at Columbia University in New York have launched an interesting website, the Fivefortyfive, on the Indian elections. With the site, they want to give a different perspective on Indian elections.

One of them, Anand Katakam, told the Hindustan Times: “We found a new perspective while looking at Indian politics from a different country’. The students make information on the important elections available for online consumption with a good and clean visual representation.”

The number 545 is chosen because it is the number of seats in Lok Sabha, the Indian parliament. The story’s on the site are very interesting and fun to read. The story on the history of the Indian democracy, for example, starts like this. “The man in charge was Sukumar Sen. A bespectacled Bengali with neatly parted hair and an affinity for cigarettes, he had already carved a successful bureaucratic career.”