If you have seen the viral videos from the recent Bangladesh elections, you witnessed a level of efficiency that would put any corporate employee to shame. In one clip, a polling agent—let’s call him the “human voting machine”—grabs a booklet of ballot papers. With the speed of a
A democracy without a strong opposition is like a game without a referee—one side calls all the shots, while the other stands silent or fumbles helplessly. In India, the world’s largest democracy, this referee is limping, distracted, and often failing to blow the whistle when it matters most. The current opposition is not just weak; […]















