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1/ The Special Intensive Revision of voter rolls has deleted or flagged crores of voters across India since it began in 2025 – disproportionately impacting women, Trans, Muslim, SC and ST communities. We’ve been following the process unfolding.
Read our SIR reporting below🧵
NEW STORY: We travelled to Banni and Lakhpat to speak to the traditional women camel breeders who sustain the pastoral economy of Kachchh. Despite this, the income their labour generates rarely rests in their hands. @habaaadd writes: behanbox.com/2026/11/13/the-…
This story is part of The Full Field: The Many Faces of Women Farmers, BehanBox’s year-long reporting project on women in India’s food production systems. Read the entire series here: behanbox.com/the-full-field/
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1/ SIR demands voters produce documents linking them to the 2002 electoral rolls as proof that they belong to a place they've called home for decades. But for marginalised communities, this is not a new experience. They have already carried the burden of proof for generations
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6/ Matra, a NT-DNT Gadia Lohar woman excluded from SIR, says “How is this our fault? We went to the office many times but they would send us back, saying that a voter ID cannot be made for the people on the street.”
behanbox.com/2026/10/13/neve…
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7/ SIR’s paper-driven logic is about more than the right to vote. It affects housing, food, and access to the very fundamental rights that a State owes its citizens. We have documented these stories of exclusion and invisibilisation for years. Read them at behanbox.com
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When early Malayali feminists challenged caste norms in small ways, like attending inter-caste festivals, they were disparagingly called ‘sluts’.
An excerpt from Kalyanikkutty Amma’s memoir, Wayfarer Woman and the Wayside Lamps.
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behanbox.com/2026/11/09/the-…
2/ What do you do when you never had a paper trail to start with? How many documents are enough? And what even counts as proof of citizenship?
Read our reportage on SIR here: behanbox.com/tag/sir/
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How does the state care for those who care for us?
Over 500 frontline health workers, mostly women, staged a sit-in protest at Mumbai’s Azad Maidan demanding the elimination of an exploitative third-party contract.
behanbox.com/2026/11/03/why-…
Many travelled from Mumbai’s far suburbs everyday, knowing full well they’d lose their wages.
@tupriya2911 writes about their protest and the larger problem in India’s public healthcare system based on contractual work and suppression of workers’ rights.
behanbox.com/2026/11/03/why-…
1/ 2nd Nov, Palghar: Several local women have submerged themselves in the sea and begun a ‘jal-samadhi’ protest against the proposed Vadhavan Port project. Why are they risking their lives to save Vadhavan? @shreyaraman18 writes: behanbox.com/2025/02/11/why-…
2/ For generations, the lives and livelihoods of fishing communities have remained connected to the land and sea. But now, the promise of “development” through the ₹76,220 crore Vadhavan port threatens nothing but destruction. behanbox.com/2025/02/11/why-…
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2/2 This video is a glimpse. Our reporters have been following the SIR from the start. Read our full reporting at behanbox.com
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1/ “There were so many people I used to visit…They would affectionately call me ‘Itha’ (sister). Most of them died and I cannot forget their faces.” After the 2024 Wayanad floods, ASHA worker Subaida did post-disaster work even as she grieved her lost home, family and friends.
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2/ In an interview with @_liniya , Subaida talks about the carework she and fellow ASHA workers undertook, the mounting workload, and why she continues. Read here: behanbox.com/2026/10/30/asha…
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3/ This interview is part of The ASHA Story, the first public archive of ASHA workers’ lives and histories. Read the other stories here: behanbox.com/20-years-of-ash…
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