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Over spring break, Neon Tommy reporters travelled to Pune and Mumbai, India, to explore the stakes of India's upcoming elections, Hindu nationalism, and other socio-cultural and religious tensions simmering in the country today.

Made possible through the Knight Program on Media and Religion, and headed by Diane Winston at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, the trip aimed to cover the drastically changing political and cultural climate in a country bracing for an election week.

"India’s six-week, $5 billion 'festival of democracy' begins Monday, national elections during which voters will select a 543-member lower house of parliament to represent the country’s 1.2 billion people, a feat of the ballot box unrivaled anywhere else in the world. But this year’s election is capturing global attention as few others have." - Kevin Douglas Grant, Senior Editor, Special Reports, Global Post.

Read more in the Saffron Election Special Report.

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