Hotmail co-founder Sabeer Bhatia proposes to develop voting app: 'If Modi Ji is ready…'

Hotmail co-founder Sabeer Bhatia recently proposed the idea of creating a secure app for voting. In a post on microblogging site X, Bhatia said that almost everything today is available through apps, including food, transport, banking, shopping, and even relationships. He said elections should also move online. In the post, Bhatia said he is ready to build a secure voting app if Prime Minister Narendra Modi agrees.

“Everything has become an app—food, transport, banking, shopping, even relationships. Why not elections? It’s time the world’s largest democracy leads with a secure voting app. If ModiJi is ready, I’m ready to build it. India could export it to the world and earn billions,” Bhatia wrote on X.



Earlier this week, Bhatia said that India’s education system is failing its students. In a NNP podcast interview, he said that instead of creating original thinkers, India is producing an "army of useless kids" who only know how to follow orders.

He believes the problem starts with a system that rewards obedience rather than curiosity. “We live in a conformist society—people are often told, ‘Listen to others, do what they say’,” Bhatia said, further adding “But why follow a path that’s already been walked?”.

During the interview, Bhatia stated that the Indian education system is wired to produce workers who take ‘orders’ instead of creating ‘visionaries’ with the ability to disrupt systems.

Comparing education systems in India and the US, Bhatia said that his children in the U.S. are encouraged to write their own stories and express ideas, even if there are spelling mistakes.

“Teachers don’t correct those because spelling is irrelevant. What matters is the thought,” he stated.