This story is from April 19, 2016

Cash for votes: The formula goes innovative

| TNN | Apr 19, 2016, 12:55 IST

Beyond freebies, cash is big in poll season. Candidates distribut... Read More

Beyond freebies, cash is big in poll season. Candidates distribute money to voters 2-3 days before elections in a myriad ways. Here are a few choice ones that have survived the test of time.

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TheAtheist

3050 days ago

There is in Islam a paradox which is perhaps a permanent menace. The great creed born in the desert creates a kind of ecstasy of the very emptiness of its own land, and even, one may say, out of the emptiness of its own theology... A void is made in the heart of Islam which has to be filled up again and again by a mere repetition of the revolution that founded it. There are no sacraments; the only thing that can happen is a sort of apocalypse, as unique as the end of the world; so the apocalypse can only be repeated and the world end again and again. There are no priests; and yet this equality can only breed a multitude if lawless prophets almost as numerous as priests. - Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) was an English writer

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