FOR about a year the country was witness to a courageously marvellous fight. On one side were arrayed forces of intolerance, intimidation, violence, assorted Hindutva outfits, all wallowing in the sunshine of protection and patronage of the Modi government; on the other, were individual voices — democratic, liberal and secular — refusing to get intimidated and unwilling to surrender space or superiority to the new sarkari commissars and their conformist demands.