Zwigato, Trial by Fire, Dahaad and Afwaah were some of the films that reflected the travails of ordinary folk. The year that we leave behind was a sombre, troubled one both for India and for much of the world. The politics of hate engulfed more and more people. Bombs pitilessly pounded children and hospitals…
By any measure, the journalist and activist has lived a remarkable life. But his own recounting of it is characteristically low-key. Prabir Purkayastha. Illustration: The Wire The memoir of Prabir Purkayastha, political and science activist and founder of the digital news portal NewsClick, includes a vivid and stirring account of his incarceration during the Emergency of…
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. Representative image of security forces in Manipur. Photo: X/@manipur_police Manipur, literally the ‘jewelled land’, today is the theatre of a full-blown…
PM Narendra Modi in a ‘Mann ki Baat’ promotional released by BJP. In the background is a radio station. Photos: Twitter/@BJP4India and Flickr/Sergio Enciso (CC BY-SA 2.0) “As the Prime Minister of this great nation, I wish today to convey to the Indian people my unbounded anguish and outrage that a uniformed railway police constable…
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. Migrant workers at the Anand Vihar Bus Terminal during the COVID-19 lockdown. Photo: Ajoy Ashirwad Mahaprashasta It was early one rainy morning in the beginning of August 2021, when the…
Harsh Mander says the former IPS officer’s gesture and open declaration of solidarity with human rights defenders are shining acts of courage. Former IPS officer Julio Ribeiro has decided to donate the cash component of the Nani Palkhivala award, which he received recently, to an NGO run by rights activist Harsh Mander. “I am told that at present…