In India’s 2024 General Elections, 642 million people were eligible to vote. Roughly one in three did not. That absence had a physical consequence nobody had calculated before: 7,500 litres of electoral ink went unused. The purple ink applied to voters’ fingers at polling stations to prevent duplicate voting, one of India’s most recognisable democratic … Continue reading What Happens When Nobody Votes: The Times of India Printed in Purple Ink to Show