The Week India – July 21, 2019

6 THE WEEK • JULY 21, 2019

LETTERS

Editor Philip Mathew

Chief Associate Editor & Director Riyad Mathew

Editor-in-Charge V.S. Jayaschandran

Senior News Editor Stanley Thomas

News Editor Lukose Mathew

Deputy News Editors Mathew T. George, Maijo Abraham,

Ajish P. Joy

Resident Editor, Delhi K.S. Sachidananda Murthy

Chief of Bureau, Delhi R. Prasannan

Contributing Editors Barkha Dutt, Anita Pratap,

Anuja Chauhan

Chief of Bureau, Mumbai Dnyanesh V. Jathar

Deputy Chiefs of Bureau, Delhi Vijaya Pushkarna, Neeru Bhatia

Chief Subeditors Susamma Kurian,

Navin J. Antony

Senior Subeditors Anirudha Karindalam,

Anirudh Madhavan

Subeditors Diya Mathew, Karthik Ravindranath,

Reuben Joe Joseph, Nirmal Jovial

Photo Editor: Sanjoy Ghosh

Deputy Photo Editors

Bhanu Prakash Chandra, Salil Bera

Chief Photographers

Delhi: Arvind Jain, Sanjay Ahlawat

Mumbai: Janak Bhat,

Amey Suhas Mansabdar

Photographer

Delhi: Aayush Goel

Chief Picture Coordinator

Bimal Nath C.

Research: Jomy M. Joseph

Art Editor: Jayakrishnan M.T.

Assistant Art Editor: Binesh Sreedharan

Senior Infographic

Designer: Sreemanikandan S.

Illustrator: B. Bhaskaran

Layout Artist: B. Manojkumar

Designers: Deni Lal, Job P.K.

Graphic Designer: Syam Krishnan

Artists: Rajesh A.S., Sumesh C.N.,

Sujesh K., Ajeesh Kumar M., Jairaj T.G.

Research Head: K. Manoharan

Senior Researcher: Rani G.S.

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New Media Coordinator Neeraj Krishnan

Deputy New Media Coordinator Sarath Ramesh Kuniyl

Senior Subeditors Hazeeda Vijayakumar, Sumitra Nair,

Vaisakh E. Hari, Ancy K. Sunny,

Jose K. George, Justin Paul George

Subeditors Vinod V.K., Anita Babu, Elvis Kurian

John, Varun Ramesh Balan

Senior Researcher Saju C. Daniel

Multimedia Rahul J. Mohan, Vipin Das P.

Executive Director George Jacob

Vice President, Marketing,

Advertising Sales Varghese Chandy

Vice President, Circulation M. Rajagopalan Nair

Senior General Manager, Sales Hari M. Varrier

MUMBAI

Resident Chief General Manager Shree Kumar Menon

CHENNAI

Regional Chief General Manager K.C. Suresh

BENGALURU

Regional Chief General Manager Ranjit Kurien

NEW DELHI

Chief Marketing Officer (North) &

Head, Special Projects R. Rajmohan

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

Delhi: Pratul Sharma, Namita Kohli,

Pradip R. Sagar

Mumbai: Rachna Tyagi

Bengaluru: Prathima Nandakumar

Thiruvananthapuram: Cithara Paul

Mumbai: Nachiket Kelkar

Chennai Lakshmi Subramanian

Bhopal: Sravani Sarkar

Ahmedabad: Nandini Gunavantrai Oza

PRINCIPAL CORRESPONDENTS

Delhi: Soumik Dey

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

equipped to deal with such

epidemics.

K.S. Jayatheertha,

On email.

Hong Kong, Kashmir

different

Mani Shankar Aiyar has

got it wrong. There is no

“interesting parallels and

important lessons to be

learned” from Hong Kong

and Jammu and Kashmir

(‘Manifesto’, July 7). The

problem in Kashmir is Paki-

stan’s aggression, terror at-

tacks and separatism. And

that needs firm handling.

If Article 370 comes in the

way, it should go.

Hong Kong is different.

Hong Kong was a British

Colony for more than 150

years. Even after independ-

ence, Hong Kong, like Sin-

gapore, remains a city that

attracts Western expats.

No ‘Pandit’ has been

driven out of Hong Kong.

China regards Hong Kong,

on the basis of history,

culture and ethnicity, as

rightly, its own. But, China

exercises its sovereignty

over Hong Kong in an ex-

tremely pliant manner.

C.V. Venugopalan,

On email.

Congrats to THE

WEEK

Your cover story on Ma-

hatma Gandhi was really

splendid (‘The unknown

Gandhi’, June 30). Thanks

to it, I came to know about

Gandhi’s life experiences,

attitudes and ethical contri-

bution to society.

Your cover story also re-

vealed Gandhi’s spirituality,

which is not bigoted, and

his tolerance to all faiths

and beliefs—a point which

the present rulers should

take note of and emulate.

Please keep up such edu-

cative and revealing stories.

Parur S. Ganesan,

Mumbai.

Well done, design

team

I have always read letters to

the editor in your maga-

zine praising or criticising

columns. However, there is

not much appreciation for

your graphics and illustra-

tion team.

In the cover story (June

23) on first-time women

MPs, the title of each section

matched the outfit worn by

that particular woman pol-

itician. The graphics team

has added quite a punch to

every story, taking the cover

package on new-age politi-

cians to the next level.

I am totally impressed

with THE WEEK’s design

team.

Nikhil Shravage,

On email.

Error

I am not a grammarian of

the calibre of P.C. Wren and

H. Martin to assume schol-

arship, but I have been a

freelance writer for the past

five decades. I was surprised

to see that the word ‘ground’

used in my letter was edited

to ‘grounded’. A pilot is

grounded; teeth are ground

(‘Letters’, July 14).

People known to me

may grind their teeth after

reading it.

J.S. Raghavan,

On email.

We regret the error.

Editor