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Swapan Dasgupta OPEN 25 JANUARY 2021 / 50 www.openthemagazine.com VOLUME 13 ISSUE 3 13 ISSUE VOLUME 25 JANUARY 2021 25 JANUARY CONTENTS 25 JANUARY 2021 5 6 12 14 16 20 LOCOMOTIF OPEN DIARY INDIAN ACCENTS WHISPERER OPEN ESSAY LETTER FROM WASHINGTON The American unravelling By Swapan Dasgupta The enigma of Krishna By Jayanta Ghosal BJP’s double helix After the insurrection By S Prasannarajan By Bibek Debroy By Swapan Dasgupta By James Astill 26 26 THE HEALING PROJECT India’s vaccine rollout is more than about protection from the pandemic. It is symbolic of economic rejuvenation and a return to normalcy By PR Ramesh 34 A SHOT OF HOPE India expects to pull off the unprecedented with its mass vaccination programme By Nikita Doval 20 46 40 THE JOURNEY OF A VACCINE Serum Institute will need all of its capacity and experience to ensure Covishield begins the end of the pandemic in India By Lhendup G Bhutia 44 THE OTHER VACCINE The biggest challenge is yet to come for Bharat Biotech and Covaxin By Amita Shah 46 A STAGE FOR TWO ONLY It is a straight contest in Tamil Nadu between MK Stalin and Edappadi K Palaniswami after Rajinikanth’s retreat By V Shoba 52 62 52 56 58 60 62 65 66 THE THE THE MAN PANDEMIC KOREGAON HOLLYWOOD STARGAZER MARATHON MAN HISTORIAN’S EYE AND THE IDEAL REFLECTIONS PARK CALLING REPORTER Oldest newcomer Anil Kapoor is in Romila Thapar provides a Arshia Sattar brings Vinay Lal gives A new gallery puts Sacha Baron Cohen By Kaveree Bamzai no mood to stop nonjudgmental cultural out the many historical context to our Pune on the on his latest film reinventing himself perspective on China shades of dharma collective and individual national art map Borat Subsequent By Kaveree Bamzai By Shivshankar Menon in the Ramayana responses to Covid By Nandini Nair Moviefilm By Bibek Debroy By Ullekh NP By Noel de Souza Cover Photograph by AP 25 JANUARY 2021 www.openthemagazine.com 3 OPEN MAIL [email protected] EDITOR S Prasannarajan LETTER OF THE WEEK MANAGING EDITOR PR Ramesh C EXECUTIVE EDITOR Ullekh NP Let the Government do governance (‘The Politics of EDITOR-AT-LARGE Siddharth Singh DEPUTY EDITORS Madhavankutty Pillai Grievance’, January 18th, 2021). The Supreme Court (Mumbai Bureau Chief), has come up with a way out of the impasse between Rahul Pandita, Amita Shah, V Shoba (Bangalore), Nandini Nair agitating farmers and the Centre. Several rounds CREATIVE DIRECTOR Rohit Chawla of talks between the Narendra Modi Government ART DIRECTOR Jyoti K Singh SENIOR EDITORS Sudeep Paul, and farmers’ unions have not been able to resolve Lhendup Gyatso Bhutia (Mumbai), the differences so far. And when the apex court steps Moinak Mitra, Nikita Doval AssOCIATE EDITOR Vijay K Soni (Web) in, no side loses. Let’s see what the Supreme Court- ASSISTANT EDITOR Vipul Vivek appointed committee suggests. The entire nation CHIEF OF GRAPHICS Saurabh Singh is hoping farmers’ protests do not turn into a law SENIOR DESIGNERS Anup Banerjee, Veer Pal Singh and order problem. 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Priyanka Saurabh 4 25 JANUARY 2021 LOCOMOTIF By S PRASANNARAJAN THE AMERICAN UNRAVELLING HE SECOND IMPEACHMENT of President messiah for America’s shirtless, his own mythology, which Donald Trump is the denouement of an American would become a user’s manual for his legions. There were two drama in which the individualistic is what strikes us Trumps, both eagerly accepted and indulged by their respective first: the protagonist is larger than the plot. There he audience. The one that emerged from the liberal media was a is, alone and defiant, abandoned by social media and lord of lies, a thug and a con man, a slayer of institutions and an Tstill adored by his base of the white working class, standing in eraser of constitutional traditions. The other Trump, written front of the broken mirror of history, a man suspended between by the man himself in the style of, allow me a pun, scream of delusion and disgrace. The individualistic is what brought him consciousness, was a victim of the elite, a leader disrespected down, from the glass palace of a Narcissus to the hard terrain of and hunted. Each Trump delegitimised the other. Each one built a ruler whose transgressive powers could not turn defeat into his own righteous reality. They needed each other for their very victory. Till the last lie, his legions stood by him, resisted facts survival. Both were mutually dependant exaggerations. Both and endorsed his uplifting fiction, read his gospels in capital are here to stay, convicted or not, as dominant, divisive ideas. letters and exclamation marks, preferred his self-portrait of a Trumpism as a ghost story will be equally gripping. persecuted president to the mainstream media’s caricature of an Which makes the story more than individualistic. The unhinged autocrat. In the lonely, final hours of the reckoning, Trump legions that stormed the Capitol, the seat of American nothing matters except the last residue of a parallel reality. democracy, are not going away, even if Trump does in disgrace. Donald Trump is holding on to it, maybe quietly hoping for the Trump came to power on the plank of a great betrayal: a white dignity of a tragedy in the moment of retribution.
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