For me, these elections were dismaying even before they began. I am not referring here to the injection of vast quantities of untraceable money into the electoral process or the questionable decisions of the Election Commission. I am referring rather to the fact that India바카라™s dire environmental and climatic threats바카라”deepening droughts; catastrophic air pollution; 바카라˜dead zones바카라™ in oceans; water-stressed cities; and an agrarian crisis that has led to thousands of farmer suicides바카라”never figured as major election issues for any of the contesting parties.