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Manasi Shah | | Published 24.01.21, 12:10 AM
Should the goods and services tax be done away with? Should soldiers be allowed to express dissent publicly? Should
gau-raksha diwas or cow protection day be a national holiday? Those are questions from Shasn, a multi-player political board game. The responses to these questions determine the political ideology that players adopt idealist or showstopper, supremo or capitalist.
Zain Memon, the creator of Shasn, explains, “It provides an immersive role-playing experience wherein every player takes on the mantle of a politician in the midst of a high-stakes election.” At the end of it, the winner takes all, but it is about who wins and how. Zain adds, “One is no longer sitting on the sidelines wondering why politicians make the decisions they do.”