Women lose out on wages and political identity as they navigate a Kafkaesque, patriarchal SIR process in West Bengal

The SIR exercise left queer voters with two options – revisit the natal homes they fled early to find relevant documents or give up on their right to vote

The SIR, which relies on the presentation of documents and legacy linkage, has disproportionately excluded women from Muslim, SC and ST communities, reveals new gender-disaggregated data

There is hardly any Bihar village bordering Nepal which does not have a bahu from Nepal. The women are now worried that the ongoing SIR could impact their citizenship rights in India