Category Archives: The Wire 2024

In 2024, We Saw a Return of Humanism in Cinema

The films may not have spoken directly to the politics of hate, inequality, oligarchy and unfreedoms of our age. But most did speak incandescently of love, of friendship and of kindness in ways that were defiant.   Screengrabs from some of Harsh Mander’s picks.   As he does every year, peace activist Harsh Mander offers…

The Many Crises of Indian Muslims

“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. Representational image of an Indian…