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With the Disruption in Corporate Hospitals, Underpaid Medical Professionals and Neighbourhood Nursing Homes Are Stepping Into the Breach by V Shoba www.openthemagazine.com 50 2 NOVEMBER /2020 OPEN VOLUME 12 ISSUE 43 2 NOVEMBER 2020 CONTENTS 2 NOVEMBER 2020 5 6 12 14 16 18 20 22 LOCOMOTIF OPEN DIARY THE INSIDER INDIAN ACCENTS TOUCHSTONE OPINION WHISPERER OPEN ESSAY The trial By Swapan Dasgupta By PR Ramesh Reimagining An American Left, right and By Jayanta Ghosal Mao against then and now the Gita folk tale nowhere Nehru By S Prasannarajan By Bibek Debroy By Keerthik Sasidharan By Minhaz Merchant By Iqbal Chand Malhotra 28 HOW ILL IS INDIA’S 28 HEALTH SECTOR? With government hospitals overburdened, bottomlines of private ones wiped out, and an insurance system that seems to be unable to wrap its head around the pandemic, Covid-19 has laid bare India’s health infrastructure By Lhendup G Bhutia 34 BE PATIENT Being non-Covid patients in the time of a pandemic By Nikita Doval 16 5 38 DOCTORS JUMPING BORDERS With the disruption in corporate hospitals, underpaid medical professionals and neighbourhood nursing homes are stepping into the breach By V Shoba 22 44 PUNJABI RAP Political brinkmanship in Punjab has taken a dangerous turn after the farm reform laws By Siddharth Singh 56 48 LETTER FROM LAHORE Land without small mercies By Mehr Tarar 52 52 56 60 65 66 BEHOLDEN TO THE ‘THE TIDE IS SHIFTING AWAY FROM THE INVISIBLE OTHER HOLLYWOOD REPORTER NOT PEOPLE LIKE US FATHER FIGURE MALE SUPREMACY’ What makes us who we are? Ewan McGregor on his A new beginning Sofia Coppola on her departure Parvathy on the Kerala Increasingly in popular culture new docu-series Long Way Up By Rajeev Masand from reflective character studies film industry it is who we are opposed to By Noel de Souza By Rajeev Masand By Ullekh NP By Kaveree Bamzai Cover by Saurabh Singh 2 NOVEMBER 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 Despite opposition parties being in disarray and EDITOR-AT-LARGE Siddharth Singh DEPUTY EDITORS Madhavankutty Pillai Rashtriya Janata Dal founder Lalu Prasad serving (Mumbai Bureau Chief), a prison term for a multi-crore fodder scam, the Rahul Pandita, Amita Shah, V Shoba (Bangalore), Nandini Nair electoral fight in Bihar that looked like a onesided CREATIVE DIRECTOR Rohit Chawla affair at the beginning for the BJP-Janata Dal (United) ART DIRECTOR Jyoti K Singh SENIOR EDITORS Sudeep Paul, combine has become tough as we near the voting dates Lhendup Gyatso Bhutia (Mumbai), (‘Bihar 2020’, October 26th, 2020). 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Then: The streets Sorkin, a courtroom drama becomes a verbal arena where the erupted in counter-cultural romance of what Le Monde kinetic force of dialogues is matched by the moralism of the called the “bored” generation. In Paris, they occupied self-conscious idealist. As a scriptwriter and filmmaker (the universities and factories and invited Sartre for repertoire includes The West Wing, The Newsroom and The Social philosophical input—and old icons of communism Network), he is the polemicist of here-and-now, carrying within Bwere worthy of being there on the wall and the placard. That was him an overabundance of headlines-driven rage. In The Trial, the a time when capitalism and imperialism were synonyms for dramatisation of moral crime and predetermined punishment evil, a time when the guardian of Gallic essentialism, Charles de parades the idealists, bigots and conspirators from the year that Gaulle, had to temporarily flee the Republic. 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