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As elections near, what are the influences and issues playing on the mind of the electorate?

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As a voter walks from home to polling boothand in a country vast as India, with 815 million voters, he or she could well pass by houses and markets or hills and rivers and ravineswhat could be on his or her mind? After days and days of loudspeakers blaring, hoardings and posters looming large, political leaders making repeated pitches, is the Indian voter firm about who to vote for or will it be a last-minute decision? How much will all that has been fed to the voter over some monthscaste and class equations, regional matters, issues like development and corruption, the financial and criminal records of candidates, the debate over strong versus weak leaderscome into play? Perhaps the only thing certain is that the voter has had an information overdose. Political debates have swung from broad concerns about inflation, corruption, governance to the thoroughly basic bijli sadak pani. There have been dramatic political twists too: a seemingly far-reaching AAP wave, its highs and lows; the BJPs claim on the centrestage; the Congress retreat.

So what does the voter make of it all? If theres a common strain, its one of disenchantment, as emphasised by the Pew Research Centers latest global attitudes survey of India, which finds 70 per cent of Indians dissatisfied, cutting across gender, age groups and the urban-rural divide. Its a confusing election, because there is a lot of baggage and anxiety, says film editor Namrata Rao, who will vote in Mumbai, talking about the ideological clashes playing on her mind. More debates and engagement with voters may mean more awareness, but sociologist Dipankar Gupta says the voter seems weighed down by all the talk about indecisiveness and corruption. Foremost on a voters mind right now is the need for a stable government, he says. But what the voter is not demanding of their candidates is a blueprint of what nextof how to restructure the economy so India can become a manufacturing hub.

Prof Jagdeep Chhokar, co-founder of the Association of Democratic Reforms (ADR), thinks voters are overwhelmed. The average voter has got sucked into the grand spectacle this election has become, he says. But the truth is, theres a big disconnect between the candidate and the voter. According to Lloyd Rudolph, a former professor of political science at University of Chicago, who with his wife Susanne has observed Indian politics for more than five decades, as the three top figures of Election 2014Narendra Modi of the BJP, Arvind Kejriwal of the AAP and Rahul Gandhi of the Congressassume a larger-than-life presence, the voter may feel dwarfed.

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I entered medical school five years ago, and I am now a postgraduate medical intern in training. I have gone so far; I still have a long odyssey ahead of me. The local board exams loom, and to quote a popular 1990s anthem, We are the ones who are next in line.

We are next in line for carnage, we are fodder for raptors, and living prey for the predators of the real life ahead of us in this profession.

It feels like it has been a very long time since I was acquainted with medical physiology, the molecular basis of disease in biochemistry and the microscopic elements of histology, the cellular aberrations of pathology, reading anatomical descriptions, organic relationships, the insertion and origins of every known muscle to man, inspecting and labelling the deep crevices of an actual human brain and the neural pathways of neurology, dissecting unknown and unnamed corpses in gross anatomy, becoming tolerant to the smell of formaldehyde, understanding the disease causation of parasites and the application and correlations of these to the clinical sciences, and being exposed to real-life patients and treating actual diseases in the field and in clinics.

One thing I have learned in medicine is that you have to be at the bottom before you realize how to get to the top. The past five years have been partly heartbreak, partly crazy, most of the time sleepless, frustrating, demeaning and exhausting, but at the same time fulfilling. And I wouldnt have it any other way.

I feel like I was thrown into a battlefield, underestimating the stories of my elders and coming out of the arena as a gladiator would, scarred and almost bleeding to death, arms raised in the air, alive but barely breathing, with a stethoscope swinging over a blazer once starched and pristine but stained now with blood and other bodily secretions.

Prior to entering med school, I didnt think that the stress would be that terrible, or that the number of topics to study would be that overwhelming, and that the nights would be literally sleepless. When the reality set in and I found myself in the midst of this war for which I had voluntarily enlisted, each day I would ask myself if this was the life I wanted, if this was the reality that I desired for myself. There were many times when I wanted to quit, those times when I felt like my 100 percent was still not good enough, and no matter how prepared I perceived myself to be, the feeling of inadequacy still lingered in the back of my mind. There were numberless times when an hour or two of sleep, or even just a full meal, was considered a luxury.

There were times when I had to sacrifice all the important occasions and holidays because I had to conduct bedside monitoring, or study for a case discussion, or have a weekend date with my textbooks, hands stained by the ink from highlighters, accompanied only by very strong coffee, while my friends and the rest of the people I know were out partying or travelingand all I could do was vicariously enjoy those moments on Facebook during break times. There were also times when I felt inept, daunted by my small knowledge and skills, wondering whether I was cut out to be like my attending physicians or my residents, or if I deserved to be in the company of the other doctors who came ahead of me.

Medicine is beyond the medical texts and the literature; it is beyond the stereotypical assumption that physicians play God, are power-hungry egotistical maniacs in white coats with superiority complexes (although I have met a handful who perfectly fit the very description). Medicine is more than the personal and physical pain you have to endure. It is sharing the actual visible pain and misery of a chronically or acutely ill or dying patient, and marshaling the best of your abilities to not only prolong life but also ensure that the quality of life is not compromised.

Those sleepless nights and those times away from our families and loved ones are all meant to prepare us for those few seconds when our decision is extremely vital, when life is reduced to a few waves on the cardiac monitor, when the imminence of death becomes a matter of how fast you think and respond.

Med school is an emotional and psychological experience comparable to nothing I have braved in my life. When I was conferred with the medical degree, and I had MD affixed to my name, I thought that the battle was over and the enemy defeated. But no. It was only the beginning of another set of challenges I have to face. MD is not a mere title we leave in the hospital premises when we go home, or an 8-to-5 duty we can let go of once we log out. The responsibility cannot be simply left at bedside when we leave our patients. We respond not only to the paging system when there is a code or to a phone call when there is a referral, but also whenever someone shouts in public if there is a doctor around.

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