A plea for India’s most neglected vote-bank: the hipster

Next year, because democracy trusts us, the same people who gave Bigg Boss 7 seasons (and counting), India will go to the polls. In the largest democratic exercise of its kind in the world, campaigns will be waged, speeches will be made and stupidity levels will be pushed to what the Pentagon calls “DEFCON Digvijay.” How you fare in a general election comes down to how you handle different “vote banks”, blocs of voters from a specific community who vote for the same person over and over again no matter what nonsense he subjects you to i.e the political equivalent of a Salman Khan fan. For example, people from Amethi only vote for the Gandhis, despite the fact that they’ve done nothing in 67 years to change the name of the town to a less distasteful vegetable.