text: *India just concluded their month and a half long "election festival", where over 600 million people voted (out of the 900 million eligible voters). That was the largest democratic exercise on the planet, where constitutionally a polling booth is available within 2 kilometers or less from every citizen, from urban cities to villages to mountains to jungles, and everything in between. Indian's election operations are studied as a case study in many business schools around the world.*