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Bridging the Trust Deficit in EVMs                                                                                     *Saumitra Mohan             The Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) are said to have been first used in 1982 for the North Paravur Assembly by-election in Kerala for a limited number of polling stations, but were approved for wider use by the Election Commission of India (ECI) in technical collaboration with Bharat Electronics Limited and Electronics Corporation of India in 1989. But EVMs made their univ...

The Emperor Has No Clothes                                                                                     *Saumitra Mohan             Notwithstanding the world contracting geographically and digitally, we have actually gotten more distanced from one another instead of coming closer. Faster transportation, faster communications, abundant knowledge and better creature comforts have not meant better inter-personal relationships amongst us. So, despite being closer to one another physically, people are no more close t...