The Week India – August 04, 2019

AUGUST 4, 2019 • THE WEEK 3

VOL. 37 NO. 31 THE WEEK AUGUST 4 2019

FOR THE WEEK JULY 29 - AUGUST 4

KARNATAKA UTTAR PRADESH

63

@LEISURE

46 58

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

Printed at Malayala Manorama Press, Kottayam, Print House India

Pvt Ltd, Mumbai, M P Printers, Noida, and Rajhans Enterprises,

Bengaluru, and published from Manorama Buildings, Panampilly

Nagar, Kochi-682 036, by Jacob Mathew, on behalf of the Malayala

Manorama Co.Ltd., Kottayam-686 001. Editor Philip Mathew

• Focus/Infocus features are paid marketing/PR initiatives

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

BHANU PRAKASH CHANDRA PAWAN KUMAR ARVIND JAIN

K