The Week India – July 14, 2019

4 THE WEEK^ • JULY 14, 2019

VOL. 37 NO. 28 THE WEEK JULY 14 2019

FOR THE WEEK JULY 8 - JULY 14

CURRENT EVENTS WORLD

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INVESTIGATION

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His innate intelligence and inherent

fl aws may help Boris Johnson lead

Britain out of the Brexit mess

A faulty system deprives almost

two-thirds of Bihar’s children of

supplementary nutrition

On his maiden trip to Kashmir as

Union home minister, Amit Shah

outlines the BJP’s plans for the valley

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COLUMNS

COVER PHOTO SANJAY AHLAWAT

COVER DESIGN BINESH SREEDHARAN

13 POWERPOINT

Sachidananda Murthy

23 PMO BEAT

R. Prasannan

43 FORTHWRITE

Meenakshi Lekhi

69 DETOUR

Shobhaa De

74 LAST WORD

Navtej Sarna

24 COVER STORY

60 BUSINESS

Premium bikes’ popularity

beats not just commuter

bikes but also the sluggish

economy

63 @LEISURE

Anuradha Bhagwati, in her

brutally honest memoir,

writes about coming out

as bisexual

WORLD CUP

ICC

2019

48 WORLD CUP

Dhoni’s is batting from memory, and that is not

helping Team India

◆ Happy to see fast bowlers come back into the

game: Sir Curtly Ambrose

EXCLUSIVE

HOLY LEADER: The Dalai

Lama with a follower

THE GREAT REFUGEE

Sixty years ago, when the Dalai Lama decided to fl ee from

Tibet, India off ered the quickest response to his request for

asylum. India remained his home all these years. He affi rms

that he is happy to live in India for the rest of his life. In an

exclusive interview with THE WEEK, he talks about subjects

ranging from the political freedom of Tibet to the problems

with the lama system of reincarnation.

◆ I urge India to make Tibet a core issue: Lobsang Sangay,

president, Central Tibetan Administration

SANJAY AHLAWAT

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