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Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman Presenting Ing Spent the First Year of His the Budget 15 FEBRUARY 2021 / `50 www.openthemagazine.com CONTENTS 15 FEBRUARY 2021 5 6 8 10 12 14 16 LOCOMOTIF INDRAPRASTHA MUMBAI NOTEBOOK SOFT POWER OPINION WHISPERER OPEN ESSAY State of the gradualist By Virendra Kapoor By Anil Dharker Nivedita’s right to rebel The rage By Jayanta Ghosal The rites of liberation By S Prasannarajan By Makarand R Paranjape By Minhaz Merchant By Swapan Dasgupta 22 THE NEW DEAL 58 A SONG FOR THE UNSUNG 72 GO THE DISTANCE Resetting the mindset In doubling the allocation for MSMEs, the More regulatory reforms instead By Haseeb Drabu & Anil Padmanabhan Budget has recognised their potential in of stimulus packages please creating employment and boosting growth By Rameesh Kailasam 44 ‘ PEOPLE WANT THEIR By Dhirendra Tripathi GOVERNMENT TO 74 THE ABCD OF FAILURE ENSURE OPPORTUNITIES. 61 BECAUSE SMALL IS BIG From disease to defence, why THEY DON’T WANT TO Ways to oxygenate micro enterprises this Budget does not work CONSTANTLY LOOK By Rama Bijapurkar By Manpreet Singh Badal TO IT FOR DOLES’ Interview with Finance Minister 64 OUT OF THE PANDEMIC 76 OLÁ GOA Nirmala Sitharaman Putting healthcare centrestage is the first An allocation of Rs 300 crore to mark By PR Ramesh step in overhauling the system the 60th anniversary of the state’s By Nikita Doval liberation from the Portuguese is 50 THE NEW CONSENSUS evidence of its outsized influence A blueprint for sustained growth 66 SYNERGY AT LAST By Madhavankutty Pillai By Saugata Bhattacharya The holistic budget combines health systems, water, sanitation, nutrition 80 NO ROADS FOR OLD CARS 54 FARMER FRIENDLY and air pollution The voluntary scrapping policy drives Food subsidy and Minimum By K Srinath Reddy fear into the hearts of the country’s last Support Price data show the persistence Padmini and Ambassador owners of the government’s generosity 68 INVESTING IN TRUST By Lhendup G Bhutia By Siddharth Singh While the Budget seeks to ease last year’s pain, it wants companies and individuals to discipline themselves too By Dhirendra Tripathi 84 88 90 98 DANCING IN THE CITY SHUSH NO MORE ‘THE ROLES WE PLAY GIVE US A STARGAZER Bengaluru emerges as the new Art and infographics on social media BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF PEOPLE, By Kaveree Bamzai capital of Bharatanatyam platforms are breaking taboos REALITY AND OURSELVES’ By Akhila Krishnamurthy By Shikha Kumar Geetanjali Kulkarni on her journey from Marathi theatre to streaming platforms By Namrata Joshi Cover by Saurabh Singh 15 FEBRUARY 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 Even 75 years after his ‘death’, Netaji’s contribution EDITOR-AT-LARGE Siddharth Singh DEPUTY EDITORS Madhavankutty Pillai as a freedom fighter remains hotly debated for two (Mumbai Bureau Chief), reasons (‘Back to Bose’ by MJ Akbar, February 8th, Rahul Pandita, Amita Shah, V Shoba (Bangalore), Nandini Nair 2021). One, successive Congress Governments have CREATIVE DIRECTOR Rohit Chawla worked to undermine his role and never gave him ART DIRECTOR Jyoti K Singh SENIOR EDITORS Sudeep Paul, due importance. Two, successive governments in Lhendup Gyatso Bhutia (Mumbai), West Bengal have failed to push back hard enough Moinak Mitra, Nikita Doval AssOCIATE EDITOR Vijay K Soni (Web) against the Centre’s wilful amnesia, thus becoming ASSISTANT EDITOR Vipul Vivek complicit in reducing the stature of Bose. BJP has CHIEF OF GRAPHICS Saurabh Singh resurrected him, maybe for political reasons and to SENIOR DESIGNERS Anup Banerjee, Veer Pal Singh tap the Bengali pride, but it is giving the Azad Hind PHOTO EDITOR Raul Irani Fauj leader the place he deserves. When former UK DEPUTY PHOTO EDITOR Ashish Sharma Prime Minister Clement Attlee met then West Bengal NATIONAL HEAD-EVENTS AND INITIATIVES Governor Justice PB Chakraborty in Kolkata in 1956, and call for an end to the Arpita Sachin Ahuja AVP (ADVERTISING) the former had admitted that one reason they let India farmer protests. Their silence Rashmi Lata Swarup become free was because the British feared Netaji. reveals their tacit complicity. GENERAL MANAGERS (ADVERTISING) Uma Srinivasan (South) Congress has tried to kill Netaji’s memory even as The protests have become conspiracy theories involving his death continue to a ruse for nefarious causes. NATIONAL HEAD-DISTRIBUTION AND SALES Ajay Gupta pop up. While most historians look down upon ‘what We don’t know why Rakesh REGIONAL HEADS-CIRCULATION D Charles (South), Melvin George if’ historical debates given that figuring out actual Tikait actually cried just (West), Basab Ghosh (East) history itself is so difficult, it does help all of us to when he realised the police HEAD-PRODUCTION Maneesh Tyagi reimagine our present. had gone back to its usual SENIOR MANAGER (PRE-PRESS) Sharad Tailang Bholey Bhardwaj self, reacting with the force MANAGER-MARKETING that it should have much Priya Singh CHIEF DESIGNER-MARKETING earlier to prevent the Red Champak Bhattacharjee Fort incident. CFO & HEAD-IT Anil Bisht RED ALERT to take control of what they Ashok Goswami CHIEF EXECUTIVE & PUBLISHER The months-long, ongoing have started. Neeraja Chawla peaceful agitation by farmers Chanchal Nandy BALANCED ANALYSIS All rights reserved throughout the world. Reproduction in any manner has suddenly taken a wrong Brahma Chellaney has is prohibited. turn (‘Rampage at Red Fort’, Red Fort has been a mute filled an important gap in Editor: S Prasannarajan. Printed and published by Neeraja Chawla on behalf February 8th, 2021). The witness to many historical Indian commentary on of the owner, Open Media Network Pvt Ltd. Printed at Thomson Press India Ltd, mayhem on Republic Day, events but what happened recent political events in the 18-35 Milestone, Delhi Mathura Road, Faridabad-121007, (Haryana). the day we resolved to bind on January 26th, 2021 shall US (‘A New Uncertainty’, Published at 4, DDA Commercial ourselves by the rules we gave stand out for different February 1st, 2021). He Complex, Panchsheel Park, New Delhi-110017. ourselves in the Constitution, reasons. 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They need refused to condemn the act Sunil Tung 4 15 FEBRUARY 2021 LOCOMOTIF By S PRASANNARAJAN STATE OF THE GRADUALIST HE CONTEXT MAKES all the difference to the same kind of poetic flourish that set Candidate Modi apart on text—you may add the prefixes of sub- and meta- the stump in Prime Minister Modi too. He moved cautiously, not this time—of Nirmala Sitharaman’s Budget. While tentatively. It was the caution of a gradualist who disappointed she was presenting her proposals for growth and those who were looking for a version of Reagan or Thatcher with modernisation in Parliament, elsewhere in Delhi, a Hindu nationalist accent. In an unequal country like India, Ta protest with archaic demands was playing out, gathering which has not yet achieved the kind of economic stability needed support from those who were desperate for the theatre of to hold a full-fledged free marketeer, that was an irrational resistance—and, as argued in this space last week, suffering from expectation. Did it mean it was the onset of Hindu socialism Modi Derangement Syndrome. The Siege of Red Fort came after after the free run of the original that blunted India’s growth? the Government had surrendered by putting its agricultural True, the Right always won the economic argument and lost the modernisation agenda in deep freeze. The protest, which is now culture war. In power, Modi, like any other cautious pragmatist endorsed by celebrity hashtags and added to social media’s rage who resisted the temptations of ideology, chose the centre, and index, demands the death of one of this Government’s bolder at times, lived up to the truism that expediencies of governance modernisation programmes. In Sitharaman’s Budget speech, make all of them a bit socialist. By being unsentimental towards Modi kind of framed his reply, not to farmers alone, but to all the public sector and discarding the accumulated xenophobia in those who are still struggling to define his mind.
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