Spending a staggering Rs 3,426 crore to elect 543 representatives in the world’s largest democratic exercise makes for international news, what with 540 million voters casting their ballots in 930,000 polling stations across India.But when a group of 60 people with narrow eyes and of stocky build quietly turned up at a polling booth in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands for the very first time, the historical moment was lost in the melee that was the 16th Lok Sabha elections.But then, the Shompen are no ordinary voters. This community of 229 people of Mongoloid. . .
