Indians vote Thursday in the world's biggest-ever democratic elections, beginning a month of polling widely expected to leave this South Asian giant with a shaky coalition government as it deals with the global economic slump.
In a nation of nearly 1.2 billion people long accustomed to divisions _ of region, religion and caste _ there has been little in the campaign to knit the country together.
"A poll of pitches and promises, but no national issues that connect," lamented the Times of India newspaper in its front page headline two days before the election.
The Thursday vote is the first of five phases that will span a month, in which …
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