With its 1.4 billion population and a billion registered voters, India stands as the world's largest democracy and 5th largest economy. India is holding national elections, which will decide its leaders for the next five years. What are the role of its institutions in supporting democracy and how are their elections conducted? What is the state of India's democracy and what are its big challenges? [ dur: 58mins. ] Ritu Mathur is Professor of international relations at the University of Texas at San Antonio. She is the author of Civilizational Discourses in Weapons Control. Sandipto Dasgupta is Assistant Professor of Politics at New School of Social Research. He is the author of Legalizing the Revolution - India and the Constitution of the Postcolony Amit Ahuja is Assciate Professor of Political Science at UC Santa Barbara. He is the author of Mobilizing the Marginalized: Ethnic Parties without Ethnic Movements and Internal Security in India - Violence, Order, and the State This program is produced by Doug Becker, Ankine Aghassian, Maria Armoudian and Sudd Dongre.