ZYTHI WORLD ANALYSIS

  The number is so large it stops being a number. One hundred and thirty million people. That’s more than the entire population of Japan. More than the combined populations of France and Spain. And according to election commission data cited by opposition parties and reported across international media, that’s how many names have been deleted from India’s electoral rolls since the “special intensive revision” began in 2025 . One hundred and thirty million citizens stripped of their right to vote, most of them without knowing it happened. I’ve been following this story for weeks now, and I keep waiting for the moment when the scale of it finally breaks through. It hasn’t. Not really. There have been protests, yes. Rahul Gandhi briefly detained. Thousands of police deployed in Delhi. Opposition leaders camped inside a public radio building adjacent to the election commission’s headquarters, shouting that the country has been “hijacked by Narendra Modi through vote theft” . But the wo...