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India Shows the World How to Move Beyond Vaccine Nationalism Even As It Confronts New Challenges at Home and Abroad by Siddharth Singh OPEN www.openthemagazine.com 8 MARCH 2021 / `50 VOLUME 13 ISSUE 9 13 ISSUE VOLUME 8 MARCH 2021 CONTENTS 8 MARCH 2021 5 6 12 14 16 18 LO COMOTIF BENG AL DIARY INDI AN ACCENTS TOUH C STONE W HISPERER OPEN ESSAY The politburo of pieties By Swapan Dasgupta The theology of liberation An epic challenge By Jayanta Ghosal Hell is not the other By S Prasannarajan By Bibek Debroy By Keerthik Sasidharan By Kanchan Gupta 22 22 WHO’S AFRAID OF SOCIAL MEDIA? The interface between democracy and the digital noise By Madhavankutty Pillai 27 STANDING UP TO BIG TECH Why Australia is telling Google and Facebook they are not bigger than governments By Sudeep Paul 30 A TOOLKIT FOR THE POST-TRUTH WORLD If you care about democracy and liberty, stop distorting the undistorted By Rahul Pandita 34 KILLING THE SLOW BRAIN How social media feeds unreason By Nitin Pai 36 THE ALGORITHM OF FREEDOM We can either surrender to global tech giants or lead the way By Aprameya Radhakrishna 38 42 38 THE TRIUMPH OF VACCINE DIPLOMACY India shows the world how to move beyond vaccine nationalism even as it confronts new challenges at home and abroad By Siddharth Singh 42 IT’S A DATE, PERIOD A public calendar is breaking the silence around menstruation in rural Haryana 46 60 By Nikita Doval 46 CARTOGRAPHER’S DAY Liberalisation of map-making is a gamechanger for the economy—but with this freedom, too, comes a big responsibility By Sudeep Paul 50 50 54 56 58 60 62 65 66 T GHE PRO RESSIVE T HE ABANDONED FO RGED IN FIRE P AGE TURNER ALL ABOUT VERBATIM HOLLYWOOD STE ARGAZ R IN PARIS Holding institutions The violence in the Browsing alert MY MOTHER Who is the REPORTER By Kaveree Bamzai The pleasures to account formation of the By Mini Kapoor Modernity faces off parasite? Riz Ahmed on his and pains SH Raza By Rohit Chandra Indian nation-state tradition in an By Nandini Nair latest film faced in Europe By Siddharth Singh indie drama set in the Sound of Metal By Yashodhara Dalmia Himalayas By Noel de Souza By Prahlad Srihari Cover by Saurabh Singh 8 MARCH 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 It is the first time in our political history that a prime EDITOR-AT-LARGE Siddharth Singh D EPUTY EDITORS M adhavankutty Pillai minister has openly advocated for the critical role (Mumbai Bureau Chief), private companies play in not only wealth creation R ahul Pandita, Amita Shah, V Shoba (Bangalore), Nandini Nair but development as well (‘Modi in the Marketplace’, CR EATIVE DIRECTOR Rohit Chawla March 1st, 2021). 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And see how we When the Wall finally came down, and when one part of the have become active citizens with more questions to ask, more world was proved to be the most comforting mythology man ideas to exchange, and more knowledge to share, in a world ever built, history did not end. It took a pause. What followed of interconnected destinies? Think of how we have become was equally divisive; the old ghosts of nationalism came to conscience-keepers and muckrakers, debunkers and storytellers, haunt the space just vacated by ideology. The new wars were liars and illuminators. How we have become the most audible fought along religious and ethnic lines, and the nationalist noisemakers of democracy.
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