Mobile phones are big business in India, and according to two Australian researchers evidence has emerged that this instrument played a key role in helping the Bahujan Samaj Party and its leader Mayawati achieve a resounding electoral victory in the country's biggest state -- Uttar Pradesh -- in 2007.
The murders of journalists in 2015 underscore the rising power of regional language media, especially local-language newspapers, says Nilanjana S Roy
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