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Vamsi Krishna 4 SEPTEMBER 2020 • MW 12 SEPTEMBER 2020 • MW SEPTEMBER 2020 • MW 5 Executive Editor’s Note SEPTEMBER 2020 Publisher & Editor N RADHAKRISHNAN Executive Publisher MINAL SURVE MONSOON MEMORIES, Executive Editor ARNESH GHOSE THE “ NEW NORMAL”, AND Associate Editor RAJU BIST WHY NEWS NEEDS AN Assistant Editor SAMREEN TUNGEKAR INTERVENTION Fashion Editor NEELANGANA VASUDEVA Art Director TANVI SHAH adapt a new way of functioning all systems. Oces and responsibilities HEMALI LIMBACHIYA Associate Art Director that once seemed unthinkable without human contact and attendance, are Assistant Art Director NANDKISHOR SAWANT being easily carried out via calls and video. I think Indian employers are finally learning to trust their employees. Just because someone is working GAUTAMI DAVE, SANJANA SUVARNA Graphic Designers from home, doesn’t mean that person is not working or procrastinating. Senior Digital Manager JAYESH V. SALVI We are finally learning that attendance is not equal to eciency. Personally, I feel that this paradigm shift in the employer-employee Production Manager MANGESH SALVI relationship was long overdue, and is definitely one of the pros of the “new normal”. One of the cons would be how many times people use mansworldindia.com the phrase “new normal” these days. From mails, to texts, to newspaper Web Editor ARNESH GHOSE headlines, overusing “new normal” is, well, the new normal. It was catchy Sta Writers MAYUKH MAJUMDAR, SANIKA ACHREKAR, RAJEEV MATHEW when the lockdown started, but it is just tedious right now, when the world desperately wants to get back to the old normal. Once we are back in the old normal, we should really have a conversation about what we PABLO CHATERJI Consulting Editor learned from the pandemic, and whether we actually need a new normal. Contributing Editors MAITHILI RAO, SOLEIL NATHWANI, Will wet markets cease to exist? Will the world become more hygienic in MAGANDEEP SINGH its interactions? Will we reduce manual responsibilities and shift to digital aid at a faster pace? What will happen to human interaction? How will socialising, partying, dating, hooking up change? Will it? If we just casually General Manager, Sales & Marketing MANOJ SHARMA roll back to the old normal eventually, what did the pandemic actually ([email protected]), NEW DELHI teach us? Well, if there is one takeaway from this period, it’s the abject General Manager, Sales & Marketing TULSI BAVISHI heartlessness of the Indian news media. With views, clicks, reach, and ([email protected]), MUMBAI don’t remember the last time I spent so much time indoors impressions being the world's talking points, we have arrived at a place during the monsoons. I have always said that us privileged ones don’t get where news is nothing more than a source of entertainment. 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Editor: N Radhakrishnan. All rights reserved worldwide. Unsolicited manuscripts will not be returned unless accompanied by a postage pre-paid envelope. SEPTEMBER 2020 • MW 7 NEWS-STAND PRICE ` 150 INTERNATIONAL SUBSCRIPTION RATES US $ 115 (1 year); US $ 220 (2 years); US $ 325 (3 years); US $ 525 (5 years) FUJIFILM.indd 1 03/08/20 6:06 PM EE letter.indd 12 08/09/20 9:39 AM Contributors WHO & WHAT YOU SHOULD BE MAITHILI RAO RADAR In this issue: Current Cinema (Pg 44) CHECKING OUT THIS MONTH Describe yourself in one word Curated by Arnesh Ghose Liberal What’s the first thing that comes to your mind when y o u h e a r ‘ s o c i a l m e d i a ’ ? N e c e s s a r y e v i l Actor What movie ending really frustrated SHREYA CHAUDHRY y o u ? A n d h o w w o u l d y o u c h a n g e i t ? The Dirty Picture.