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p.26: voter meeting, cutout (seen from back) and tapedeck in front of mikes
      and crowds; one neta telling CommonMan: "Yes, we use cut-out and taped
      speech in order to further tighten security.

p.30: foreground newspaper headline: Miss Universe Miss World; woman at
      construction site, carrying load on head, and baby in arms telling
      Cman: I am proud of the spectacular transformations and improvements
      which are taking place among women of India.

p.37: from outside a room with a board "Meeting of Party nominees", neta
      inside on mike: Sons, sons-in-law, nephews, brothers-in-law, my kith
      and kin.  Our great democratic republic is about to start the
      election...

p.47: secretary telling neta: Today is not so bad, sir.  You have only to
      deny the allegations on p. 1, 5, 7, 10, 14, 18 and 34!

p.49: Aircraft, with large "Sorry for the delay" written where the airline
      name appears

p.1:  smart man with CM walking past gandhi statue (no head): With everything
      having foreign collaboration these days some sceptic thinks this new
      statue is actually Ben Kingsley!

p.150: wife of Cman to Cman, who's carrying two hefty suitcases; a taxi in
       the background with driver half-asleep: I wonder what these poor taxi
       fellows do for a living.  They won't come north, they won't come east,
       west or south!

139: sign "Party HQ"; man looking like MGR: "... as disciplined party
     members, you must stop raping, abducting, extortion, murdering, etc.
     Otherwise our poll chances may suffer.

124: fg: headline: "Bandh"; goonda looking man behind desk telling standing
     subordinates: I want it to be peaceful -- no violence. Only six buses,
     ten lorries, a dozen scooters to be burnt, stones should only be thrown
     at...