In a recent appearance at a media agency, Sam Stevenson, assistant editor at UK's Daily Express, shed light on what he perceives as prevailing misconceptions about India in Europe and the West.

White house communications advisor John Kirby was responding to a question on the ongoing Indian elections, wherein over 969 million people are exercising their right to franchise at one million polling stations to elect 545 members of parliament from thousands of candidates representing as many as 2,660 registered political parties.