From the archive record
The resilience of Indian democracy and the heat of general elections. Together they make for a heady infotainment cocktail which is consumed in huge quantities by a politically passionate audience across the nation. Add television coverage to this concoction; the result is electronic effervescence. Election year 1996, for the first time in the country, television cameras got the heat and dust of poll campaigns. Political rallies and politicians at the rallies over the years. Laloo Prasad Yadav, the likes of LK Advani and Sonia Gandhi. See Anita Pratap on CNN. This footage is part of the broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of HD imagery from South Asia. The collection comprises of 150, 000+ hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly sh