Indian Students At Columbia University Launch Website On Lok Sabha Elections

New York: A group of Indian students at Columbia University in New York launched a website focused exclusively on India’s upcoming general elections, promising to provide a comprehensive and “no high-brow and jargon-led” reportage of the event.

The ‘FiveFortyFive.com’ is a “single-subject website” focusing on the Indian general elections founded by six Columbia journalism school students.

It is being described as a platform for a “variety of voices” including students, academics, professionals, bureaucrats, journalists and even the discerning politician” talking about what the “election means to them” since elections are “not just about political leaders and political parties.”

The students behind the day-old website – Devjyot Ghoshal, Anand Katakam, Iva Dixit, Indrani Basu, Rishi Iyengar and Aparna Alluri – chose the number  45 because that is the number of seats in the India’s Lok Sabha.

The site hit 500 likes on Facebook in just about 36 hours and has over 400 followers on the microblogging site Twitter.
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