The Week India – June 30, 2019

10 THE WEEK • JUNE 30, 2019

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SENIOR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS

Delhi: Rekha Dixit, Mandira Nayar,

Namrata Biji Ahuja, Soni Mishra,

K. Sunil Thomas

Srinagar: Tariq Ahmad Bhat

Lucknow: Puja Awasthi

Kolkata: Rabi Banerjee

SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS

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Pradip R. Sagar

Mumbai: Rachna Tyagi

Bengaluru: Prathima Nandakumar

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Mumbai: Nachiket Kelkar

Chennai Lakshmi Subramanian

Bhopal: Sravani Sarkar

Ahmedabad: Nandini Gunavantrai Oza

PRINCIPAL CORRESPONDENTS

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Hyderabad: Rahul Devulapalli

Kochi: Anjuly Mathai

SENIOR CORRESPONDENTS

Bengaluru: Mini P. Thomas,

Abhinav Singh

Delhi: Sneha Bhura

Mumbai: Priyanka Bhadani,

Pooja Biraia Jaiswal

CHIEF REPORTER

UAE: Raju Mathew, Dubai

minister would pave the

way for technocracy, a

form of governance where

experts in a particular field

lead the department related

to their education, skills

and stint.

Modi’s second term will

be about policy implemen-

tation and delivery.

J. Akshobhya,

On email.

BJP’s next target

The BJP has set its eyes on

Telangana and this was

quite evident with the

results in the Lok Sabha

polls in the state (‘Not in

the pink’, June 16). It was in-

teresting to note a Congress

leader telling your reporter

that even in constituencies

where the BJP candidates

did not campaign, lakhs of

votes were polled in their

favour.

With the Congress having

become a sinking ship in

Telangana, the BJP will

emerge as the only opposi-

tion party in the state to the

ruling Telangana Rashtra

Samithi.

Vyom Prakash,

On email.

Interesting letters

The letters to the editor

appearing in your maga-

zine are more interesting

than some of your columns.

The views of the readers are

mostly correct.

It is time regular col-

umnists of your magazine

understood that the readers

cannot be carried away by

their tricky style of writing

and jugglery of words. Let

them not make THE WEEK

their playground.

S.R. Gopinathan,

Palakkad, Kerala.

The apt minister

I could not spot the word ‘wonk’ in my dictionary. But,

I will take on M.K. Bhadrakumar for calling S. Jais-

hankar’s appointment as foreign minister an enigma

(‘Last Word’, June 16). There is nothing mysterious,

puzzling or ambiguous in the appointment. It was a

bit surprising, though. Perhaps, the prime minister

wanted the best man presently available for the job

considering India’s geopolitical compulsions.

As a diplomat and later as the foreign secretary,

Jaishankar played a crucial role in key negotiations

with the US and China. As the external affairs minister,

Jaishankar will have the required political clout to be

more assertive in strategic and foreign policy matters.

Also, I don’t think the prime minister is worried

about Rahul Gandhi being “ruthless against the

growing resistance movement in India to the corporate

process”. Rahul’s ‘chowkidar chor hai’ narrative was a

damp squib.

I believe Jaishankar will be of great help and advice

in Modi’s grand plan to prepare India for the free mar-

kets of corporate capital.

C.V. Venugopalan,

On email.