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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🧵
#Talkies | Protests for women’s safety swept India last month, as groups rallied with demands that have punctuated feminist movements for decades. But has anything changed in the grammar of protests and state response? Feminist activist Urvashi Butalia speaks to @Saumya_Kalia
"I’m full of admiration for young feminists because the consequences are so much more serious than before… The State has become much more distant from its citizens, if not hostile to & much less accountable,” - Urvashi Butalia. Read the full interview: behanbox.com/2026/10/22/youn…
1/ In this BehanBox Feminist Election Newsroom conversation, three reporters, @ayushikar1998, @BanerjeeSanhati and @samrraiqbal discuss the unequal burden of SIR and what place such an exercise has in a democracy.
Watch it here: youtu.be/dCRZkf-FaLc
2/ Want to be a part of such conversations in the future? Join the Feminist Election Newsroom today: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
2026 is the International Year of the Woman Farmer. Over the years, BehanBox has focused on the invisibilised labour of women – and their small acts of solidarity and resistance.
These are the women transforming India’s farms, forests and food systems.
behanbox.com/the-full-field/
“We leave our footprints on the swamp every time we walk through it, but the land doesn’t belong to us,” says Nalini Kandi, a Dalit woman who puts relentless care in restoring Odisha’s mangroves.
@piroeutteworld reports:
behanbox.com/2025/04/24/wome…
On Oct 12 in Daulatpur, detained protesters asked for water. Along came a container and a video recorder. The police posed, passed two glasses, and took the water away once filming stopped.
“We kept shouting we need water, no one listened,” says Naureen.
behanbox.com/2026/10/19/beat…
Cage-like vans, beatings, the misuse of provisions under BNSS and Delhi Police Act, and the complete transformation into a police state.
“The police have a free hand to violate people's constitutional rights under the garb of administrative law and order,” says @vertika_mani.
Thousands were detained in the anti-SIR protests across Delhi. This is what happens after – and why people still choose to show up.
“Main kyu daru? If saying ‘Inquilab Zindabad’ or ‘Jai Bhim’ is wrong, I am happy to be wrong.”
@Saumya_Kalia reports.
behanbox.com/2026/10/19/beat…
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You've read about brutal detentions in Delhi. Now read the story of what happens after someone is detained, of the citizen-led networks working around the clock to rescue people. Our story on Delhi protests, detentions, and the web of care that makes resistance possible:
On Oct 11, @laavanyatamang's friend was detained by Delhi Police during SIR protests.
“They can grab your phone, hit you, drop you anywhere...There is no accountability unless you literally have a large number of people saying we’re watching you.”
Read: behanbox.com/2026/10/19/beat…
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Fantastic reporting by @behanbox on the detention centres dotting Delhi, what happens to protestors there, and how help always arrives in the form of organisations and groups working round the clock to rescue detainees. Please reshare and amplify!
On Oct 11, @laavanyatamang's friend was detained by Delhi Police during SIR protests.
“They can grab your phone, hit you, drop you anywhere...There is no accountability unless you literally have a large number of people saying we’re watching you.”
Read: behanbox.com/2026/10/19/beat…
On Oct 11, @laavanyatamang's friend was detained by Delhi Police during SIR protests.
“They can grab your phone, hit you, drop you anywhere...There is no accountability unless you literally have a large number of people saying we’re watching you.”
Read: behanbox.com/2026/10/19/beat…
@Saumya_Kalia spoke to people detained during the protests and those working to secure their release. Neither is unbowed.
“They can detain us, slap UAPA or NSA, it won’t make a difference this time. This is about citizenship.”
Read: behanbox.com/2026/10/19/beat…
Remember, at the heart of the protest is the SIR exercise, where arbitrary rules, opaque systems and demands for proof have stripped millions of people of their democratic right to vote.
Read our reporting on SIR here: behanbox.com/tag/sir/