Why The Indian Elections are Massive in Scale and Importance
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Senior leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) party, Amit Shah (C) and Ravi Shankar Prasad (2L) celebrate victory at their party's headquarters in New Delhi on May 16, 2014.
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( ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP / Getty )
Produced by Seth Maxon and Mythili Rao