In India’s capital, Delhiites reduced to documents

September 19, 2026 admin

Aadhaar number. PAN card. Voter ID. Ration card. Sanichari Devi, 63, has packed all of these documents into a polythene bag for the special intensive revision (SIR) hearing at the Government Sarvodaya Bal Vidyalaya, a government school near Mori Gate in Delhi’s Chandni Chowk Assembly constituency on September 15. These were the papers by which the State had recognised her, again and again, as a citizen…

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