In the days before polling in Tamil Nadu, more than 4,000 candidates were clamouring for attention across 234 constituencies — on walls, on vehicles, on loudspeakers that crackled through the morning air. 

But inside a quiet home off Dr. Radhakrishnan Salai in Mylapore, Chennai, a Grade 12 student was doing something that turned out to be far more powerful. He was building a website.

Kapil Bhaskar is 16 years old. He loves maths, coding, and like a lot of teenagers in an election season, loves debating politics with family and friends. 

The website he built, Nee Yosi, did one thing with elegant simplicity: it told you everything worth knowing about every candidate on your ballot. 

Their criminal cases, declared assets and educational background. All of it was pulled from official Election Commission affidavits, stripped of legalese, and laid out in plain Tamil and English — in seconds, for free, on any phone.

The problem no affidavit could solve

The problem he was solving was real. The Election Commission had published affidavits for every candidate, but reading them meant wading through hundreds of pages of dense legal documents per constituency. 

With an average of 17 candidates contesting each seat, no ordinary voter was going to do that.........

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