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After extending their  support to a consideration  by the Election Commission to ban opinion polls as they apparently mislead voters, the Congress has sought another ban, this time on Electronic Voting Machines with multiple buttons on similar grounds. “Electronic Voting Machines with multiple buttons are very likely to leave the voter confused and lost. Not only do they mislead the voter, but they also end up wasting a lot of time as the voter has to scan the length and breadth of the EVM to finally high-five his hand with the one on the EVM..err..cast his franchise,” opined Congress spokesperson Rashid Alvi. When asked about what is permissible during election time, Alvi said, “We have no problems if there are reality shows like Bigg Boss and Indian Idol running during election days. A lot of people will cast their vote for participants over there and voter turnout for the general elections will dwindle. But the important point is that because of this, the number of vo...

I bring positive greetings to you on this festive and most holy observance of Diwali. I have offered to make a small verbal contribution to this observance today on this Hindu holy occasion of Diwali and as such I would like to invite a few minutes of your attention as I proceed with this delivery, purposefully titled Divinity in Hinduism: The Supreme Female Form; A Message to Remember. In the early  months of 2013, following the gruesome and fatal sexual assault on a female Medical Student in a Bus in New Delhi India, and a few other such atrocities, unrelated but certainly newsworthy and also having occurred in India in the months that followed, a rapid stream of both local and international media attention have been focused on the incidence of these, whilst not widespread, but most malicious, vexatious, and indeed ruinous attacks criminally perpetrated by a handful few in the Indian landscape. At the height however of the frenzied and inevitably best-seller and sensati...