Bombay voted yesterday. The first election since 26/11, part of the biggest democratic exercise the world’s ever seen, etc etc. You know the drill: rallies, placards, long lines of voters, intimidation, maybe the odd bombing, all good developing-world election fun. Except that none of it happened.
You wouldn’t have actually known there was an election in South Bombay yesterday, but for the fact that most companies gave their staff a day off so the city was really quiet. I plumped for the train home after work and had almost a carriage to myself, when normally at rush hour you get less than a square foot.
But it seems most people just took it as an extra holiday and cleared off.
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