THE MAN WHO COULD DEFEAT TRUMP PLUS Campaign in the Time of Covid
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EXCLUSIVE VIROLOGIST PARTHO SAROTHI RAY INDIA-CHINA STANDOFF KERALA AUGUST 15 DEADLINE FOR COVID VACCINE IS A GIMMICK THE WEEK REPORTS FROM LADAKH CM’S OFFICE RATTLED BY JOURNALISM WITH A HUMAN TOUCH www.theweek.in TheWeekMag TheWeekLive $ 50 GOLD SMUGGLING CASE TAMIL NADU WILL SASIKALA GET AN EARLY RELEASE? WHAT MAKES MEGHA MAJUMDAR’S JULY 19, 2020 JULY DEBUT NOVEL CLICK JOE BIDEN THE MAN WHO COULD DEFEAT TRUMP PLUS Campaign in the time of Covid TRUMP Dirty tricks galore VOL. 38 NO. 29 THE WEEK JULY 19 2020 VOL. 38 NO. 29 THE WEEK JULY 19 2020 FOR THE WEEK JULY 13 - JULY 19 FOR THE WEEK JULY 13 - JULY 19 24 44 63 SANJAY AHLAWAT SANJAY INTERVIEW INDIA-CHINA CONFLICT @LEISURE The medical system is reaching its Ladakhis caught between a pandemic Megha Majumdar on writing a political limits: Partho Sarothi Ray, associate and border tensions want a tough novel that captures India’s less than professor, IISER, Kolkata response from the Army shiny side 28 COVER STORY 16 MAHARASHTRA The monsoon and the COLUMNS prevailing Covid situ- ation could wreck the 13 POWER POINT state’s health system Sachidananda Murthy 20 WEST BENGAL 23 IVORY TOWER Experts argue that Sanjaya Baru blindly following WHO 27 PMO BEAT guidelines will increase R. Prasannan Covid deaths 43 MANIFESTO 49 KERALA Mani Shankar Aiyar A gold smuggling case 71 BITTER CHOCOLATE that is brewing into a Swara Bhasker political storm 74 LAST WORD 54 TAMIL NADU Bibek Debroy If Sasikala walks out of prison early, she could AP muddy the political 60 BUSINESS waters R.C. Bhargava’s LEFT HOOK 57 AVIATION new book offers a For Joe Biden, the fight against US President Donald Trump Despite challenges, template for working HAL aims for the sky and living is very personal, all-consuming and a “battle for the soul of the nation”. With his palpable empathy, he will be a tough opponent for the incumbent. COVER PHOTO GETTY IMAGES COVER DESIGN BINESH SREEDHARAN Plus Printed at Malayala Manorama Press, Kottayam, Print House India Pvt u The rise of Joe—from a boy with a debilitating stutter to Ltd, Mumbai, M P Printers, Noida, and Rajhans Enterprises, Bengaluru, and published from Manorama Buildings, Panampilly Nagar, Kochi-682 presidential nominee 036, by Jacob Mathew, on behalf of the Malayala Manorama Co.Ltd., u Bruised by the protests and pandemic, Trump is expected to Kottayam-686 001. Editor Philip Mathew fight hard and dirty • Focus/Infocus features are paid marketing/PR initiatives 4 THE WEEK • JULY 19, 2020 LETTERS stand towards China could wrong to call the Chinese CASH CRUNCH : WHAT THE STATES ARE DOING EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS: YOGI ADITYANATH, ASHOK GEHLOT, T.M.THOMAS ISAAC RELIGION IN THE YEAR OF THE MASK have spun the situation on our friends in the first place. JOURNALISM WITH A HUMAN TOUCH www.theweek.in TheWeekMag TheWeekLive $ 50 HOW PRISONERS ARE MEETING FAMILIES DURING COVID the LAC out of control. Look how Japan deals with TWO FARMERS ARE GROWING APPLES As a permanent res- China. We should be like JULY 5, 2020 JULY IN THE DECCAN EXCLUSIVE olution looks a remote that. It is high time we came WHY possibility right now, more out of our illusions. XI IS UPSET bloody skirmishes like the K. Aravinda Upadhyaya, Li Xiaojun, Chinese State Council director, speaks to THE WEEK one in Galwan Valley can- On email. PLUS Barkha Dutt reports not be ruled out in the near from Ladakh India should meet future. War may loom in the Why such a China halfway on BRI Xu Wenhong, deputy secretary general, OBOR Center, Beijing background, but the battle photograph? is well and truly on. I have my reservations Vijai Pant, against the photograph you On email. have published (‘The big picture’, July 5). It was gory In the case of Kargil, the and very unsettling to see in conflict was with a known a national newsweekly. Recalibrate, reinvent enemy, but in the Galwan During any pandemic, It has become increasingly evident that India-China Valley the ground situation many couples seek the help camaraderie will remain a chimera so long as the is altogether different. Here, of midwives. I fail to under- festering wound of border dispute is not healed China didn’t comply with stand the urge to publish (‘Beijing’s blame game’, July 5). To deal with the rising the agreement. such a photograph. supremacist tendencies of China, India needs to Declaring spontaneous Vismay Mathur, recalibrate, and even reinvent its diplomatic tool box action is best left to strate- On email. in a big way. gists and tacticians. It is easier said than done to boycott China S.K. Rajput, Need effective economically, as that could end up as a self-goal. On email. mechanism But to make ‘local’ more ‘vocal’ is not only a sensible I would like to congratulate option, but also an unavoidable one in today’s Once bitten, twice shy is K. Sunil Thomas for his circumstances. the saying. But, I suppose, thought-provoking article Raveendranath A., it does not apply to Indians. on states attempting nev- On email. We have been betrayed and er-tried-before economic back-stabbed several times, measures to stay afloat but we have not learnt an- during the pandemic (‘Pre- With well-developed roads road projects in the border ything. The Chinese, from carious States’, July 5). and other infrastructure areas. ancient times, were looked It not only provides the along the mountainous China has been nibbling upon suspiciously, but we first-hand account of the terrain of the LAC, China at Indian territories for long trusted them on many oc- worries of our fund-starv- enjoyed an advantage vis a now, but the incursions, casions only to repent later. ing states but also brings vis India. But, today, New this time, are deeper and We consider Pakistan as an us face-to-face with the Delhi is catching up with more intimidating. India’s enemy nation but why not economic calamity in the Beijing, by speeding up increasingly antagonistic even China? Maybe it was country. SUBSCRIPTIONS/CUSTOMER CARE CIRCULATION Hyderabad: BUREAU ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE EDITORIAL For all subscription related inquiries Bengaluru: 040-23314168/23324692 Bengaluru: Manorama Buildings, P.B. 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Jayaschandran Senior News Editor Stanley Thomas overcome the effect of big way and make apples News Editor Lukose Mathew COVID-19: All you negative stimuli created by affordable to the poor. Deputy News Editors Mathew T. George, Maijo Abraham, Ajish P. Joy such a situation. Jothindra P.L., Resident Editor, Delhi K.S. Sachidananda Murthy The current economic Mysuru, Karnataka. Chief of Bureau, Delhi R. Prasannan need to know situation demands an im- Chief of Bureau, Mumbai Dnyanesh V. Jathar perative introspection and Let’s limit it Deputy Chief of Bureau, Delhi Neeru Bhatia Chief Subeditors Susamma Kurian, COVID-19, the disease caused by a Pregnant women are fearing an effective mechanism to A disease like Covid-19 will Navin J. Antony new coronavirus, has rapidly spread hospital visits. When do you bring back the economy have a major influence on Senior Subeditors Anirudha Karindalam, globally and is now a pandemic, think it is absolutely essential Anirudh Madhavan on the track within the pa- architecture (‘Space gaze’, Subeditors Diya Mathew, Karthik Ravindranath, according to the World Health for them to not skip an rameters of the democratic July 5). Office spaces are Reuben Joe Joseph, Nirmal Jovial Organization. Many pregnant patients appointment? structure. going to shrink in size in have expressed concerns, both for Women should be advised Dr Bandana Sodhi D.K. Mishra, the days to come. SENIOR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS PRINCIPAL CORRESPONDENTS Delhi: Rekha Dixit, Mandira Nayar, Hyderabad: Rahul Devulapalli themselves and their babies, about the to attend routine antenatal care, Senior Consultant (Obstetrics & On email. Many offices in India are Namrata Biji Ahuja, Soni Mishra, Kochi: Anjuly Mathai impact of COVID-19 on their health. tailored to minimum, at the discretion Gynaecology) & Gyn laparoscopic surgeon K. Sunil Thomas jam-packed, which is not Ex faculty AFMC, Pune, Srinagar: Tariq Ahmad Bhat SENIOR CORRESPONDENTS Understandably, mothers-to-be have of the maternal care provider at 12, This is the future how they should be. Also, Lucknow: Puja Awasthi Bengaluru: Mini P.