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Happy Birthday, Mr Prime Minister the Seclusion of a Great Leader Is the Inevitable Outcome of the Sensitivity of His Office www.openthemagazine.com 50 28 28 SEPTEMBER /2020 OPEN VOLUME 12 ISSUE 38 28 SEPTEMBER 2020 CONTENTS 28 SEPTEMBER 2020 5 6 7 12 14 16 18 24 LOCOMOTIF INDRAPRASTHA MUMBAI TOUCHSTONE SOFT POWER WHISPERER STATECRAFT OPEN ESSAY The new evil empire. By Virendra Kapoor NOTEBOOK Can’t blame the gods Happy Birthday, By Jayanta Ghosal Odisha’s There cannot be Or is it? By Anil Dharker By Keerthik Sasidharan Mr Prime Minister Covid strategy two suns in one sky By S Prasannarajan By Makarand R Paranjape By Amita Shah By Sunanda K Datta-Ray P A 28 28 2020 IS NOT 1962 And China will realise why the hard way if it chooses the military option against India By Maroof Raza 34 WINTER IS COMING The psychological divide between the enemy lines By Manvendra Singh 40 BREAKING THE SHACKLES The government’s immediate problem is finding the resources to meet multiple 40 demands for money By Siddharth Singh 44 44 THE ARSONIST’S ACT Kangana Ranaut plays her biggest role as the demolition diva at Bollywood’s weakest moment By Kaveree Bamzai 48 FOR THE LOVE OF THE GAME The rise of online fantasy sport 56 By Ullekh NP 52 52 56 58 62 66 THE NEW HERO PITCH PERFECT PRIDE PORTRAITS THE WRONG GIRL NOT PEOPLE LIKE US Actors who bring heaps of talent Musical collaborations Three artists from the The Neapolitan magic is missing A local setting and the whiff of lives well lived across genres make for subcontinent create online in the new Elena Ferrante By Rajeev Masand outside the Bollywood bubble fine onscreen drama works of intimacy By Arshia Sattar By Kaveree Bamzai By Aditya Mani Jha By Chintan Girish Modi Cover by Rohit Chawla 28 SEPTEMBER 2020 www.openthemagazine.com 3 OPEN MAIL [email protected] EDITOR S Prasannarajan LETTER OF THE WEEK MANAGING EDITOR PR Ramesh C EXECUTIVE EDITOR Ullekh NP Open’s well-researched article chillingly revealed the EDITOR-AT-LARGE Siddharth Singh DEPUTY EDITORS Madhavankutty Pillai modus operandi by which drugs are transported and (Mumbai Bureau Chief), converted into currency (‘Guns and Poppy’, September Rahul Pandita, Amita Shah, V Shoba (Bangalore), Nandini Nair 21st, 2020). The most crucial question that this report CREATIVE DIRECTOR Rohit Chawla raises is what our agencies are doing? ART DIRECTOR Jyoti K Singh SENIOR EDITORS Sudeep Paul, Punjab is almost destroyed by drug addiction and the Lhendup Gyatso Bhutia (Mumbai), youth in that state are also slipping into trafficking, of Moinak Mitra, Nikita Doval AssOCIATE EDITOR Vijay K Soni (Web) all sorts. Money spun through drug sales is now find- ASSISTANT EDITOR Vipul Vivek ing a new avenue in funding terrorist operations. CHIEF OF GRAPHICS Saurabh Singh The ongoing case of Sushant Singh Rajput’s suicide has SENIOR DESIGNERS Anup Banerjee, Veer Pal Singh brought to the fore the prevalence of drug addiction in PHOTO EDITOR Raul Irani India’s film industry, with many big, respectable fig- DEPUTY PHOTO EDITOR Ashish Sharma ures being exposed. However, was this really a revela- NATIONAL HEAD-EVENTS AND INITIATIVES tion or have our narcotics agencies turned a blind eye to things worse for the sector. Arpita Sachin Ahuja Chanchal Nandy AVP (ADVERTISING) the problem till Rajput’s death became a national story? Rashmi Lata Swarup Drug addiction is not a problem only among the likes of GENERAL MANAGERS (ADVERTISING) Uma Srinivasan (South) Rajput but it is spread across classes and masses. NEW BEGINNING Kashmir has had its own share of troubles for a long Rachel Dwyer’s column on NATIONAL HEAD-DISTRIBUTION AND SALES Ajay Gupta time and drug addiction is not helping its case. Soon, it retirement and the thrill REGIONAL HEADS-CIRCULATION D Charles (South), Melvin George will be facing addiction-related crimes too, as Punjab of a new beginning had a (West), Basab Ghosh (East) has been for so long. We need to get serious about drug very special, appropriate HEAD-PRODUCTION Maneesh Tyagi abuse and ensure that all channels—international or autumnal hue (‘Ageing in SENIOR MANAGER (PRE-PRESS) Sharad Tailang domestic—for smuggling drugs in India are closed by Life and Films’, September MANAGER-MARKETING making their transaction a capital crime. 21st, 2020). The inevitability Priya Singh CHIEF DESIGNER-MARKETING Let’s not slip from udta Punjab to udta India. of retirement also highlights Champak Bhattacharjee Bholey Bhardwaj that newer worlds beckon us CFO & HEAD-IT Anil Bisht in old age. Her Hindi film- CHIEF EXECUTIVE & PUBLISHER driven narrative segued into Neeraja Chawla life seamlessly. All rights reserved throughout the world. Reproduction in any manner VACCINE SCI-FI seems to have failed. The Sangeeta Kampani is prohibited. With no medical cure in Serum Institute of India Editor: S Prasannarajan. 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HE DRAMATISED DOCUMENTARY, The Social simulated happiness too would demand complete submission Dilemma, streaming on Netflix, asks all the good men, from its inhabitants, whose minds would be programmed women and children out there to save themselves by the developers of the Big Lie. The dissidents then, the from the spell of social media. Damnation by runaway dreamers, didn’t have the luxury of seminar rooms or technology is imminent, it tells us through the earnest docudramas. They went to the Gulag. Freedom was bondage Tvoices of tech dissidents, once the creators of the perfect machine then, as it is now in the new silicon imperium the current for mind control and, today, evangelists for a humanised social dissidents are raging against. The mind was the marketplace network. It reinforces an ethical position on the dictatorship of then, regulated by invisible powers; the mind is what the new algorithms: a great promise has become a curse. The makers of revolutionaries want to monopolise now, warn the dissidents. the show have got Sophocles for endorsement: “Nothing vast Today we are data. Yesterday we were statistics. enters the life of mortals without a curse.” Maybe I’m getting carried away by the humanity of the new The vindication, we have been reminded, is around us. A freedom fighters—the new truth-tellers who lived the thrill and polarised world further fragmented by racism, hate speech, terror of social media. Maybe it’s that, even though I share some Russian troll farms, Chinese data stealers, government of their fears, I’m not convinced. Maybe that I don’t think this is surveillance systems, online Goebbels, fake news, Tucker the new Evil Empire. Maybe it’s that I still refuse to banish a Likes- Carlson, unhinged nationalists, religious zealots, Donald driven society to the psychiatry ward of high morality, even if Trump… . In this dark web we are trapped in, we are both I can feel the sickness sometimes. It’s not Google or Facebook victims and collaborators. We are the infected, and in blissful that poses an existential threat to our civilisation. It’s us, the immersion, we spread the virus. Maybe not; we are the virus. Or damned. A search engine may turn us into useful data, and sell that’s what the dissidents tell us. us to advertisers.
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