Once in a Blue Moon Academia (OBMA)

 EVMs and/or Ballots: Binary Dead-Ends? EVMs and/or Ballots: Binary Dead-Ends? Posted on 22nd April, 2025 (GMT 15:30 hrs) Composed and Compiled by  Partyless Society⤡  &  Occupy Dalal Street⤡ ABSTRACT The article critiques the polarized debate in India surrounding electronic voting machines (EVMs) versus paper ballots. It contends that framing the issue as a binary choice oversimplifies the complexities of electoral integrity. The authors highlight that both EVMs and paper ballots possess their unique vulnerabilities, urging the need for robust, transparent, and verifiable bottom-up electoral processes rather than a fixation on the medium of voting. The piece advocates for a more nuanced discussion that transcends partisan positions to confront the genuine challenges of ensuring free and fair elections in a more decentralized, participatory, and partyless manner. I.  The Backdrop https://youtu.be/R2IfzbMLL7M The  2025 February Delhi Assembly electi...

 Post-Mortem of Parliamentary Democracy and What Is Still To be Done? Post-Mortem of Parliamentary Democracy and What Is Still To be Done? Futuristic Regression: Sustainable Retreat from Development Posted on 08/06/2024 (GMT 17:21 hrs) I. Introduction: Implications of the Lok Sabha 2024 Result After the declaration of the 2024 Lok Sabha Elections Result on 4th June, 2024, we reflected on the fact that the electoral mandate has totally destroyed the invincible, autocratic, authoritarian, one-man army paper-tiger mode of Mr. Narendra Modi. The election result has made the image-making process of (spectacle) Modi a futile enterprise. No one single party has got the absolute single majority this time, thus paving way to the materialization of the Article 1 of the Indian Constitution: India, that is Bharat, shall be a  union of states. This election has led to the emergence of this federal plurality of diverse regions with localized concerns instead of running after a monolith...