India, Nov. 24 -- True, the Election Commission of India (ECI) does not only "delete" but also "reunites" too. Amid an ongoing political slugfest over alleged "stress-related" deaths on account of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, SIR has started building bridges to the past.

Amid the deletion scare of names, SIR, by default, has united at least three families in the past two weeks of its inception in Bengal.

Cut to Purulia district bordering Jharkhand: The Chakrabarties of Gobardanga village witnessed a happy reunion with the eldest son of the family, Vivek Chakrabarty, after 37 long years. Vivek had gone missing in 1988, never to return home, notwithstanding frantic searches conducted by the family for decades....