30/05/2009

This week, A Letter from Delhi. In the previous one, broadcast earlier this month, the former BBC Correspondent Mark Tully was preoccupied with the month-long general election which was going on in India. The signals were proving difficult to read: what sort of a government would that vast population return to power? Was the electorate in the mood for change? Well, now the results are in, there’s an opportunity for Mark to take stock of the country’s new political landscape, to see who’s in and who’s out, and to check whether his predictions proved accurate.