"The project is that this is a Hindu land that belongs to Hindu people and Muslims are outsiders. And India has to bring an end to these thousand years of slavery," author of the book 'Shikwah-e-Hind: The Political Future of Indian Muslims' Mujibur Rehman told The Wire in an interview.

Zwigato, Trial by Fire, Dahaad and Afwaah were some of the films that reflected the travails of ordinary folk.

By any measure, the journalist and activist has lived a remarkable life. But his own recounting of it is characteristically low-key.

The prime minister has not visited Manipur even five months into the conflict, and, until the no-confidence motion against his government in Parliament, did not make any public appeal for peace in Manipur.

Even after the second wave, vendors in Delhi's Majnu ka Tilla earned sometimes one, sometimes two hundred rupees a day. Sometimes not even that.

Harsh Mander says the former IPS officer's gesture and open declaration of solidarity with human rights defenders are shining acts of courage.

In the fraught times that the Indian republic is passing through, it is a year when Indian cinema turned away from storytelling that defends and celebrates justice, equality, freedom and kindness.

Mander, who based his story on a real person, has said it is disappointing that the government agency is now going after his story and asking for its removal.

Every second Indian was born and raised in times of aggressive majoritarianism, and also in neoliberal India, with no memory of another country, as it was imagined, and imperfectly lived.

Our leaders have taken India to the very edge of the abyss. My desperate hope is only that enough of us don’t shut down our conscience.

Unsurprisingly, many of the best films of the year were meditations about death and loss, but also about inequality, oppression and resistance.

India is the world’s largest democracy, but it is also home to the largest numbers of poor people in the world. Roy examines the dichotomy of such an existence.

We expected this crisis to be a long interregnum of suffering, but one in which India’s demons of hate would be exiled. The ruling establishment had other plans.

An immense deal can be achieved by the administration to help victims of violence, if it musters political courage and morality and is driven by public compassion.

Harsh Mander's selection of movies that looked at India with empathy and hope.

Doing so will clear the moral pathways of the civil disobedience I intend to carry out against the graded hierarchy of citizenship.

Finding land to build a mosque or temple was never the question. It was whether those who razed the mosque should be punished, or rewarded for their illegal act by being allowed to erect a temple at the site of their crime.

The simple act by students of St Stephens will show the Kashmiris that there are people who have not abandoned them.