SC interim order on Aadhaar doesn't bring relief; Why criminalising triple talaq is overkill; 'The Last Jedi' is a visual spectacle; and more 

[View this email in your browser]( Top Story [Mani Shankar Aiyar Is Only the Latest Victim of BJP's Storm in a Teacup Tactic]( Shiv Visvanathan [Aiyar is a deeply secular man. His affinity for the Left is open, public and well-known, and both ideas are anathema to the BJP. What is, however, emerging is not a witch hunt against secularism, but a stereotyping of elitism, an elitism often hyphenated with the Congress as a family. What one sees emerging is a battle between elitism and populism, between an elite sense of taste often snobbish and a populist sense of hypocrisy. Any critique of the vulgar, the common as unaesthetic, un-civilisational is read as an anti-democratic statement. Yet no one pauses for a minute to ask what is the BJP's commitment to an equalitarian world or a just society. As a party, it plays with the symbols of equality, but has never offered anything substantive in terms of equality. Its indifference to agriculture, its destruction of the informal economy and its indifference to craft societies is clear.]( [Public Health Leaders Ask to Be Removed From Mailing List of Foundation Offering Them Tobacco-Funded Grants]( Anoo Bhuyan [This follows The Wire's exclusive story this week about Derek Yach targeting health leaders with grant money from his foundation, which is funded by the tobacco industry.]( [Supreme Court's Interim Order on Aadhaar Fails to Bring Relief to UID Holdouts]( The Wire Analysis [The court is bizarrely silent on whether Aadhaar enrolment IDs can be made mandatory for all services and benefits.]( [Survey Reveals Pathetic Health Conditions Around Raigarh Coal Mines, Plants]( Lakshmi Supriya [Doctors and activists found a higher than normal incidence of tuberculosis, mental illnesses and arthritis-like joint pains, even among people below the age of 30.]( [Policy for Those Found Non-Citizens After NRC Update in Assam Still Undecided]( Sangeeta Barooah Pisharoty [Even as the Centre is quiet on the policy and the Assam Accord suggests disenfranchisement of 'foreigners' for ten years, experts offer solutions like work permits and protective legislation.]( [The Perfect Face for All Occasions]( Chitra Padmanabhan [Is Narendra Modi's face ever able to get over the instinct of seeing invisible cameras everywhere, of wanting to be seen everywhere?]( [Why Criminalising Triple Talaq is Unnecessary Overkill]( Faizan Mustafa [Can triple talaq, at best a civil wrong, come under the purview of criminal law?]( [Populism Threatens Democracy, but Is It Also Essential to It?]( Nehmat Kaur [A preview panel for the upcoming Jaipur Literature Festival discussed the future of politics and democracy in India.]( ['The Last Jedi' Is a Visual Spectacle but Does Not Have a Lasting Impact]( Tanul Thakur [Like any Star Wars film, The Last Jedi has intergalactic battles aplenty but misses out on the intimate; the small situations where characters live their fears and vulnerabilities.]( Copyright © 2017 The Wire, All rights reserved. You're getting this email because you recently subscribed to receive email digests from The Wire via our website. Our mailing address is: The Wire 13, Shaheed Bhagat Singh Marg Gole MarketNew Delhi 110001 India [Add us to your address book](//thewire.us11.list-manage.com/vcard?u=6b988b13445248b1268a308f2&id=4808224841) Want to change how you receive these emails? You can [update your preferences]( or [unsubscribe from this list](