Rock band tells India's youth "to shut up and vote..."

Thermal and a Quarter (TAAQ) has been roped in to stir the urban youth to vote by Tata Tea-sponsored 'Jaago Re (Wake up)! One Billion Votes' campaign and Bangalore-based NGO Janaagraha.

The rock-band campaign to 'wake up' the youth is called Shut Up and Vote.

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'It's interesting how some good folks in the blogosphere are already dishing out their cynicism and quasi-intellectual gibber about the campaign and its effectiveness,' the band says in its blog TAAQin.

'They yap about India and China, about the economy and their parsimony, about the Olympics and the Commonwealth Games, about Padma Shris and Padma Laxmi. But hey, just for a minute, get off that high horse and do something people.' Full story...

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3. If voting is a civic duty, how about NOT voting?
4. When Hollywood makes you feel guilty for not voting...
5. Voting is stupid ...