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Has the INDIA bloc lost its vitality after the Lok Sabha polls? Here we discuss the question.

Guests: K.K. Kailash, Professor, Department of Political Sciences, Hyderabad University; Hilal Ahmed, Associate Professor, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies

Host: Sobhana K. Nair

Edited by Jude Francis Weston

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Has the INDIA bloc lost its vitality after the Lok Sabha polls? Here we discuss the question.

Guests: K.K. Kailash, Professor, Department of Political Sciences, Hyderabad University; Hilal Ahmed, Associate Professor, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies

Host: Sobhana K. Nair

Edited by Jude Francis Weston

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