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SIR and the Making of a Stateless Citizen? | R. Rajagopal Speaks Out | Teesta Setalvad
Veteran journalist and former Editor of The Telegraph, R. Rajagopal, found himself excluded from West Bengal's electoral rolls during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process. What followed, he says,...
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