My Vote, My Weapon

Together with a researcher from the newly established Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) of South Africa, I was sponsored to study the 50th elections of one of the world’s oldest democracies.

Now, India is a world of great poor/wealth divide, a sad disease that Botswana and many African nations are slowly catching up to. From the world’s entry point commercial city, Bombay, to the political capital of New Delhi and the rural lands of Kerala state, poverty and extreme wealth live side by side.