Emily Wax in The Washington Post:
Mumbai: Before the November terrorist attacks on this city left three of his friends dead, Kaizad Bhamgara, 19, spent his evenings jamming with his hipster goth-rock band or chilling on the wave-sprayed boulders along the high-rise-ringed shoreline.
But the pain of his loss and his frustration over the ineptitude of the government’s response to the attacks moved Bhamgara to put down his drumsticks and pick up his laptop.
He set up a Facebook page called “Rise Up Mumbai! Rise Up India!” It soon expanded into a Web site, a YouTube channel and a blog, all devoted to encouraging his peers to vote in India’s national elections, which will be held in five phases from April 16 to May 13.
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