Electronic Voting Machines cannot deter electoral rigging

This Indian Express reprot reveals the new paradigms of poll rigging. So much for the "Vibrant democracy" of India

What they didn’t want you to see: EC on how Left ‘rigs’ Bengal polls
From using a ‘strong scent’ to mark out voters to planting dummies to slow down voting in Opp bastions: EC observer Amanullah’s report on 2004 polls in Bengal could become a manual for next year’s election
SANTWANA BHATTACHARYA

NEW DELHI, DECEMBER 17: The Election Commission has kept it a top secret—a 10-page report by its Special Observer Afzal Amanullah on what he calls “organised rigging” by “a particular political party” during the 2004 Lok Sabha polls in West Bengal. The reference clearly is to the CPM-led Left Front. Despite a PIL, despite strident demands by the Opposition, the report has never been made public. Not without reason.

To find out why look at:
http://indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=84196

Fidayeen: A Surprise inside the mind of an "Islamic Terrorist"

Who is a terrorist? Is it a misguided youth with a gun...the angry young man, not knowing what to be angry at? Or is it a man who sells his life for money for the family? Who is a terrorist? More importantly, why is he a terrorist? Can a terrorist be brought back to society. Why do we and our society create such an environment that breeds such discontent that finds recourse in terrorism?

Or is it only another desperate attempt at grabbing power? Is the terrorist then just a dispensable pawn...and religion just an excuse?

A piece from today's Indian Express tries to look into the life of a terrorist:

Fidayeen Muzamil Jaleel goes to meet a would-be suicide bomber. And encounters a scared, almost simple lad who yearns for home and an ordinary life!
http://indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=84163