It’s taken some time, but more people are finally waking up to the magnitude of what’s been happening. When the Election Commission announced around this time last year a Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral roll for Bihar on the eve of Assembly elections, no one raised an eyebrow. That was the level of public trust in the institution. When it announced that the SIR had eliminated 65 lakh (6.5 million) voters, it came as a seismic shock, followed by the sustained after-sh