In just ten months, two election commissioners objected 14 times to decisions related to SIRs. At Scroll, we have covered extensively, how SIR has changed election outcomes, people's lives and has far wider impact than just names being deleted from voters' rolls. A thread:

Kuttykunju Thangkachi broke new ground in music, theatre and literature at a time when women’s creativity was expected to remain private. scroll.in/magazine/1094659/t… Malini Nair ✍️

Classrooms should encourage and asses dialogue as opposed to purely descriptive assessments to assist a student’s learning. scroll.in/article/1096531/wh… Oscar Davis writes Via The Conversation

Syed Md Nurul Basir, director general of the Department of Jute, said that the government was committed to saving the interests of millions of jute growers. scroll.in/article/1094870/in… Kamran Reza Chowdhury writes Via Mongabay India

Replug | Masala dosa at Guntakal. Curd rice with pickle at Trivandrum. Sanitised, neat packages on the Vande Bharat train. Meals on board have changed – and how. scroll.in/article/1086907/fr… ✍️Aarthi Parthasarathy

The US needs to treat Gulf data infrastructure the way it treats oil, integrating it into contingency planning and regional security coordination, Zabin said. scroll.in/article/1091285/us… Indranil Ghosh writes Via Rest of World

#China has ordered an "all-out" rescue effort in a remote area of #Tibet after an #earthquake killed at least 16 people and injured dozens more. Over 300 houses collapsed or were damaged in the 7.0-magnitude quake, and more than 12,000 residents have been evacuated. Credit: AFP

Our food, music, thought and emotion are made of layered pasts. The attempt to strip this away in an elusive search for purity misses how cultures survive. scroll.in/article/1089920/wh… Nirupama Menon Rao writes

Her very name, Bibha, means “light” – appropriate for the trailblazing experiments she conducted, tracing the paths of cosmic particles and making their passage visible to the human eye. scroll.in/magazine/1096388/h… Kamayani Sharma writes

These texts enforced gender roles around domestic labour and helped shape a ‘national cuisine’ rooted in dominant-caste Hindu preferences. scroll.in/article/1088382/ho… Sohel Sarkar writes Via MAP Academy

The significance of Durga Puja’s pandals lies in their capacity to make competing histories and uncomfortable truths visible in public space. scroll.in/article/1096412/in… The question is whether this capacity can survive an atmosphere in which artists, organisers and vendors must anticipate the consequences of expression before acting, Amrita DasGupta writes

The botched execution throws up many inconvenient facts. #ChristaPike lives with what one can only assume is incredible pain, both physical and mental. The Eighth Amendment of the US Constitution is silent on this. scroll.in/article/1096512/th… Peter Ronald deSouza writes

Medicines for sickle cell anemia are free in specific government hospitals. However, reality is different. scroll.in/article/1094740/wh… “Even if they are available, they only give us a week’s worth of medicine,” said a patient. “So, we mostly end up buying it, which comes to Rs 2,500 a month.” By Nolina Minj

On Friday, Justice Subramonium Prasad said that there were “adequate safeguards” and directions had been issued to the special executive magistrate to give all materials to #NehaBora before passing any order in the inquiry. Read more: scroll.in/latest/1096615/del…

What the pact does is subtler. By putting Pakistani and Turkish air defenders around Saudi cities and oil installations, it frees Saudi aircraft and crews to fight over Yemen. scroll.in/article/1096353/pa… M Waqas Haider writes Via The Conversation

Maharashtra FDA chief Tukaram Mundhe’s crackdown on unhygienic eateries and quick-commerce dark stores has won him fans and rattled the food industry. scroll.in/article/1095147/ho… Several businesses have faced temporary licence suspensions over hygiene violations. Tabassum Barnagarwala reports

Elephants are wide-ranging, intensely social animals whose lives involve movement over substantial distances, complex relationships with other elephants, communication, learning and choice. Captivity compresses that world. scroll.in/article/1095892/wh… By Alok Hisarwala

"#ChaarYaar works in fits and starts, but is mostly a humourless slog to sit through. The eight-episode series has too many moving parts, some of which creak with overuse," @deepagahlot reviews. scroll.in/reel/1096566/chaar… Via @TheReel_in

In 2018, the Centre launched the Anemia Mukt Bharat programme, the large-scale provision of iron and folic acid supplements, and the introduction of fortification mandates. However, the fifth round of the survey saw a reversal of these gains. scroll.in/article/1095497/in… Karan Babbar reports