The Better India · 9 hours ago

This 16-Year-Old Built an AI Website That Helped 70,000 Voters Decode Tamil Nadu Election Candidates

Too young to cast a ballot himself, 16-year-old Kapil Bhaskar spent 48 hours coding a solution to a problem that had quietly disenfranchised voters for years: Election Commission affidavits so dense with legalese that almost no one read them. His AI-powered tool Nee Yosi distilled the records of over 4,000 Tamil Nadu candidates into plain Tamil and English, stripping away the bureaucratic fog to reveal criminal cases, assets, and qualifications in seconds. Within days, 70,000 people used it - including a domestic worker who couldn't read English but could finally understand who was asking for her vote. "I know that this is along the lines of what I want to do," Kapil said afterward, having discovered that democracy sometimes needs nothing more than clarity, offered freely, in the language people actually speak.