A voter's finger marked with indelible ink after casting a ballot at a polling station during the first phase of voting for national elections in Muzaffarnagar district, Uttar Pradesh, India, on ...

India’s massive, twice-a-decade exercise in democracy is once again leaving its mark on the country’s people, in the form of purple-streaked index fingers.

And when the electoral commission announced a contest in 1993 for someone to create an indelible ink to use for ... "It works by forming a new layer of dead cells," he says, "but with color." ...

A voter's finger marked with indelible ink after casting a ballot at a polling station during the first phase of voting for national elections in Muzaffarnagar district, Uttar Pradesh, India, on ...

The company now supplies indelible ink to more than 35 countries, ... or women have their feet decorated with different colors,” said Banerjee in a phone interview.

India’s massive, twice-a-decade exercise in democracy is once again leaving its mark on the country’s people, in the form of purple-streaked index fingers. The Election Commission uses indelible ink, ...