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The article offers news briefs related to election in India as of April 11, 2014. The political leaders who filed for nomination papers from the Lok Sabha in Uttar Pradesh include Dimple Yadav, Hema Malini, and Salman Khurshid. Aam Aadami Party (AAA) leader Arvind Kejriwal was punched by a 19-year-old man twice while pretending to garland him. Moreover, 12% reservations to Muslims was promised by Telangana Rashtra Samithi.

The article reports on chairman George Abraham of the Indian National Overseas Congress (INOC) who met vice president Rahul Gandhi of the All India Congress Committee and discussed regarding the diaspora on the election reversals in India.

The article focuses on the national election and democracy in India. Topics being presented include the high level of political engagement in India and managing the massive voter turnout, Main Street America's awareness of the largest democratic elections in history, and the key role of media and the education system in the election.

The article offers information on India's general elections voting which raised the question with international implications. Topics discussed include religiously-tinged populism that led Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party to a historic electoral win in 2014 which soon turned out to be echoed in other anti-establishment votes in the U.S., Europe and elsewhere; and discusses the remarks that led some Indian intellectuals, as well as those outside the country.

The article reports that Indian widow Vaishali Yede, whose farmer husband committed suicide, decided to run for Lok Sabha elections. It mentions that Yede's campaign was not only a rebuke to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi but to the hierarchies of class and gender that structure Indian politics. It presents views of Yogendra Yadav, the leader of a new farmers movement, on the state of Indian agriculture.

The article comments on the belated move by social network company Facebook to remove accounts in India and Pakistan that manipulated public opinion, in relation to India's national elections. Topics discussed include the move on right leaning pages in India, the case of Pakistani social media campaigner Hanzala Tayyab, who is fighting an internet war with arch-foe India, and other controversies faced by Facebook including Great Britain's vote to leave the European Union.

An interview with Frank G. Wisner, former U.S. Ambassador to India and foreign affairs advisor at the law firm Patton Boggs LLP, is presented. Wisner discusses the impact of the Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade's arrest on the U.S.-India foreign relations. When asked what the diplomatic agenda of both countries should cover, he stresses the need to refocus on their strategic ties. He also offers his outlook on the electoral results and how these might change the country's economic prospects.

The article discusses the election outcomes which reveal the victories of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in four Indian states. The BJP victory has poised Gujarat chief minister Narenda Modi to become the next prime minister of India. It also revives other issues relative to the 2005 visa ban of Modi and the national interest of the U.S. under the administration and foreign policy of U.S. President Barack Obama.

The article reports on the data from the Center for Media Studies which estimated that the spending of the Indian politicians for the election campaigns in April 2014 will reach around $4 billion.

The article reports on the move of technology entrepreneur and Infosys Ltd. co-founder Nandan Nilekani to contest elections on a ticket for India's ruling Congress Party..