AUGUST 4, 2019 • THE WEEK 3
VOL. 37 NO. 31 THE WEEK AUGUST 4 2019
FOR THE WEEK JULY 29 - AUGUST 4
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Closure of tanneries in Kanpur brings
environmental and employment
concerns to a head
In 25 years of exile, Taslima Nasreen’s
sacrifice of her freedom for her thought
is her biggest acceptance
The BJP proves its majority but there
are challenges ahead as the party
eyes expansion in the south
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COLUMNS
COVER PHOTO SALIL BERA; COVER DESIGN BINESH SREEDHARAN
13 POWER POINT
Sachidananda Murthy
43 MANI-FESTO
Mani Shankar Aiyar
56 SCHIZO-NATION
Anuja Chauhan
57 IVORY TOWER
Sanjaya Baru
70 EVERYONE IS A CAMERA
Bose Krishnamachari
74 LAST WORD
Barkha Dutt
18 COVER STORY
STRANGERS AT HOME
The final list of the National Register of Citizens will be published
by the Assam government on August 31. Many Bengali-speaking
Muslim families that have called the state home for generations are
desperately trying to prove their citizenship to avoid deportation
u Army veteran Mohammad Sanaullah’s failed citizenship test
exposes faults in the system
u Everybody is under the scanner: Bhaskar Jyoti Mahanta, special
director-general of police (border)
u We have told the Indian government that such an exercise is
discriminatory: Fernand de Varennes, UN special rapporteur
on minority issues
CALL FOR INCLUSION
Congress workers protest
Assam’s NRC in front of
Assam House in Kolkata
40 DIPLOMACY
Contrasting messages
for India and Pakistan
as the US tries to pull
out of Afghanistan
44 RTI
Protests intensify
as the Central
government hopes to
get the RTI bill passed
in the Rajya Sabha
52 CONGRESS
The party is struggling
to come out of the
post-election tailspin
62 INTERVIEW
Data protection laws
are no restriction for
advertisers: Prasanth
Kumar, CEO, GroupM
South Asia
Plus
SALIL BERA
66 CINEMA
A look at the genius of
Quentin Tarantino, ahead of
the release of Once Upon a
Time in Hollywood
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