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A mammoth exercise ends

The world’s largest democratic extravaganza has concluded. Seven phases spread over six weeks, catering to over 970 million voters, some located in remote regions, the exercise involved about 15 million polling staff, 5.5 million Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) and over 11 lakh polling booths.

An illiberal world

For decades, it seemed that instability was the curse of the world’s wanting. In the democratic and industrialised West, elections…