Know Your Neighbour

Important Notice (19.04.26)

This is what democracy looks like when it is being defended from a rented room.

No corporate funding. No institutional backing. Just a group of young people sitting with deleted voters, Hindu, Muslim, from every background, helping them reclaim something the system quietly took away.

BBC, Al Jazeera, The Telegraph, Scroll, The Quint, Hindustan Times and more have covered the SIR crisis. But what most people do not see is the ground reality, the actual humans behind the data, the young researchers and legal interns who show up every day to make sure deleted voters are not left alone in this process.

That is what this room is.

We have more to do. More constituencies to analyse. More voters to help. More data to put in front of the country. Your support directly funds the researchers, the legal aid, and the tools that are making this work possible.

If not now, when?

Support Us: https://donate.sabarinstitute.org/

Lakhs of voters were deleted in Bengal. But how many of them were actually alive?

That is the question no one was asking. So we did.
Sabar Institute has built the first interactive map of SIR deletions across all 294 seats of West Bengal - combining three major datasets into one simple, searchable view. And we went one step further by calculating "Net Deletions" - removing the deceased from the count to show the real number of living voters who lost their right to vote.

This is free, open, and built for the public. But it needs your support to keep growing.

Explore the map: https://sabar-institute.github.io/maps/overall/

❤️ Support the work: https://donate.sabarinstitute.org/

No one has done this before.

For the first time, every single voter deletion across all 294 Assembly seats of West Bengal has been mapped - constituency by constituency, district by district.
And what the map shows is hard to ignore.

The darkest red falls in Malda and Murshidabad. The same districts. The same communities. A pattern too consistent to be coincidence.

This is Sabar Institute's first-of-its-kind interactive map of SIR deletions across Bengal. Built by our team. Open for everyone.

Explore it yourself: https://sabar-institute.github.io/maps/supplementary/index.html

The author of 'To Kill A Democracy' visited our camp today. He came to see the work. He stayed to praise it.

Debasish Roy Chowdhury was not expecting to find a room full of people under 25, processing voter appeals, sitting with deleted citizens, and running what is arguably one of the most consequential legal aid operations in Bengal right now.

But that is exactly what he found.

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Every deleted voter deserves clarity, support, and a way forward.

That is why Sabar Institute created the Citizen’s Handbook - a free, step by step guide to help people in Bengal understand and file their SIR appeal without fear, confusion, or dependency.

Covered today by The Telegraph, this handbook was made for ordinary citizens. Because a legal process should never feel like a closed door that only experts can open.

If your name has been deleted or placed under adjudication, visit sabarinstitute.org and download the handbook directly from our website.

The SIR camp is also open for you.

Visit our office: 44/1A, Manasatala Lane, Khidirpur, Kolkata, West Bengal 700023

Contact us: 8585859971

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Register Now: https://shorturl.at/lxWQq

We are currently receiving a very high number of visitors at our camp. To make the process smoother, faster, and more organized for everyone, please fill out this form before visiting the camp.

Your cooperation will help us assist you better.

Form link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfGpwQJVs2i2uRJB1qi2TpXPFRkuTOxRavGzOEP8zHUZornMg/viewform

Thank You!

When the system fails citizens, sometimes it is the youngest voices that show up first.

A youth-led team out of Kidderpore has been decoding SIR data, filing appeals and standing with deleted voters, day after day. The Telegraph covered this work today.

The camp is open today. If you or someone you know has been affected, come in.

Address: 44/1A, Manasatala Lane, Khidirpur, Kolkata – 700023

Contact Number: 8585859971

Sabar Institute | Ashkas' Law Chamber | United Medicos

The camp is open today.

If your name has been deleted or is under adjudication, come directly to us. Bring your documents and our team will sit with you, understand your case, and help you take the next step.

You do not need to figure this out alone.

Address: 44/1A, Manasatala Lane, Khidirpur, Kolkata – 700023

Contact Number: 8585859971

Sabar Institute | Ashkas' Law Chamber | United Medicos

Join Now - https://meet.google.com/dvj-ifhm-xbp

One constituency. One dataset. And it ended up in Hindustan Times, BBC, India Today, The Quint, Scroll, The Telegraph and more.

95.5% of deleted voters in Nandigram's SIR list were Muslim. That is not an allegation. That is what the data shows.

We have now made the full repository public. Every number, every source, everything verifiable — because that is how we work.

But Nandigram is one seat. West Bengal has 294.

🔗 Explore the data: https://sabar-institute.github.io/sir/

If you want this research to cover the rest of Bengal, support it.

Scan the QR code in the poster or donate at donate.sabarinstitute.org

Power the research. Protect the vote.