Imagine being told, months before an election, that your name may vanish from the voter list unless you produce a specific set of documents proving where you and sometimes your parents were born. For lakhs of voters caught in the Election Commission's Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, this was not hypothetical. It became the subject of one of the most closely watched constitutional disputes before the Supreme Court, one that goes to the heart of who gets to decide whether you are a citizen entitled to vote, and how.