From the research desk
Field notes, research methods, and campaign thinking from a decade of work across Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, and Karnataka.
The July 20 CJP march from Jantar Mantar towards Parliament turned a youth-led satirical protest over alleged exam irregularities into a national confrontation over accountability, policing and the right to protest. Injury and detention figures remain contested, with police, organisers and media reports offering differing accounts.
రాజకీయాలు అంటే కేవలం ఎన్నికలు లేదా ప్రభుత్వాలు మాత్రమే కాదు. ఇది ఒక సమాజంలో అధికారాన్ని ఎలా పంపిణీ చేయాలి, నిర్ణయాలు ఎలా తీసుకోవాలి, మరియు వనరులను ఎలా కేటాయించాలి అనే దాని గురించి ఉంటుంది. ఇది సామాజిక క్రమాన్ని, న్యాయాన్ని, మరియు అభివృద్ధిని సాధించే ఒక కీలక ప్రక్రియ.
Every constituency answers honestly - if the question is asked well. What ten years of survey design taught us about listening before advising.
A number without a method is a guess. How disciplined sampling turns polling day conversations into a projection you can plan around.
State-level swings make headlines, but victory is assembled booth by booth. Why the smallest unit of an election is the most important one.
The conversation moves faster than any press cycle. What a campaign command centre actually does between six in the morning and midnight.
Booth, swing, sample, weighting - six terms that get used loosely in election season, and what they actually mean when the work is done properly.