E-day: Who will make history?

[caption id=“attachment_1385” align=“alignright” width=“300” caption=“Deshakalyan Chowdhury/AFP Photo”]  [/caption] As counting of votes gets under way  in the four States where Assembly elections were held – West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Assam – Firstpost will offer you cutting-edge coverage and analyses of the sort you’ve come to expect from us over the past four days. We’ll have live, multimedia coverage from the battleground States, interviews, analyses, live blogging – and a whole lot more. Stand by for lots of exciting action, and great interactive coverage. And while you wait for the action to pick up, here’s a round-up of the very best of our election coverage. First the projections. CNN-IBN’s exit polls and post-election surveys project Mamata Banerjee is set to win in West Bengal; so also Tarun Gogoi in Assam; but Tamil Nadu and Kerala are too close to call. Reports here and here . Bullwhip benefits Mamata; TN, Kerala will test pollsters Jai Mrug on Mamata’s ‘winner-takes-all’ advantage - and why Tamil Nadu and Kerala are too close to call. Voters may prove pundits wrong Election time can be humbling not just for some politicians, but also for election analysts. Psephologist Yogendra Yadav on how it’s easy to get it wrong. Mamata as India’s first McCandidate There’s something about the Didi’s election campaign that brought US-style presidential campaigns to mind. And just as McDonalds repackages itself from one nation to the other – Chicken Maharaja Mac in India, McFalafel in Israel , the Croque McDo in Belgium – so  too has Mamata reinvented herself over and over again.  Sandip Roy writes. Marxists caught in a time-warp For Sanjeev Srivastava, visiting the Left Front headquarters in Kolkata was “like being in a Time Machine which stopped ticking decades back.” An epochal change for the under-30s in West Bengal There’s a generation that’s grown up in West Bengal seeing only dhoti-kurta clad avowed Leftists at Writers’ Building. Torsa Ghosal, 22, writes about her ‘first vote’ – and why others like her have felt the buzz this time. Money, money, money: Tamil Nadu was all about buying your vote Sanjeev Srivastava travelled to Tamil Nadu – and entered a parallel moral universe. Politics and Bollywood Are Mayawati, Mamata and Jayalalithaa too hot for Bollywood? Although all three women have made it in politics against considerable odds, Bollywood hasn’t quite warmed up to their fascinating life stories. No masala or what? Deepanjana Pal explores. The Kanimozhi drama is a Bollywood dream come true And to that list of women politicians whose lives would make for gripping Bollywood drama, Shiv Visvanathan adds one more: Kanimozhi.