Mumbai, March 23 -- For the Liberalisation generation, the cohort that remembers a world without the internet or cellphones, Prannoy Roy, despite his later achievements with NDTV, remains the man who introduced us to the excitement of India's elections. Back then, a psephologist interpreting cold statistics to show how the nation exercised its franchise was a practitioner of logical witchcraft. Decades later, on the eve of an election that could change India, Roy and Dorab R Sopariwala, market research veteran and NDTV editorial adviser, present The Verdict; Decoding India's Elections. Full of charts and tables on everything from anti-incumbency, bellwether constituencies, and landslide state assembly elections, to the falling representation of Muslims, and the success rate of opinion and exit polls, the book is rich in data backed by lucid explanatory text. While some of this confirms long-held suspicions (that elections are not truly representative) or might excite only numbers nerds, the section on the woman voter offers fresh insights that could spur change....