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GROUP EDITORIAL DIRECTOR: Raj Chengappa P rime Minister Imran Khan. This ing influence of the Pakistan army that has
EDITOR: Ajit Kumar Jha (Research) is something Pakistan, India ruled the country for 33 of its 71 years of
GROUP CREATIVE EDITOR: Nilanjan Das; GROUP PHOTO EDITOR: Bandeep Singh
MANAGING EDITORS: Kai Jabir Friese, Rajesh Jha and, indeed the world, will need existence. He must also counter criticism
EXECUTIVE EDITORS: Damayanti Datta, S. Sahaya Ranjit, to wrap their heads around. that he is a marionette of the military. I
Sandeep Unnithan
DEPUTY EDITORS: Prachi Bhuchar, Uday Mahurkar, Manisha Saroop As someone who’s watched Khan over think such accusations grossly underes-
Mumbai: M.G. Arun Hyderabad: Amarnath K. Menon Chandigarh: Asit Jolly the years, from his days as the charis- timate this charismatic leader who can
SENIOR EDITORS: Shweta Punj, Sasi Nair, Alokparna Das
Jaipur: Rohit Parihar matic cricket captain of Pakistan, I least be bold, audacious and headstrong. This
SENIOR ASSOCIATE EDITORS: Kaushik Deka, Ashish Mukherjee
Mumbai: Suhani Singh, Kiran Dinkar Tare; patna: Amitabh Srivastava expected the glamour boy to transition is where I think he will, sooner or later,
ASSOCIATE EDITORS: Shougat Dasgupta, Chinki Sinha to PM of his country, though I did find become a problem for the army. There
Kolkata: Romita Sengupta; Bhopal: Rahul Noronha;
Thiruvananthapuram: Jeemon Jacob; BeiJing: Ananth Krishnan him sincere, dogged and passionate in is a belief that as long as the army does
ASSISTANT EDITOR: pune: Aditi S. Pai
PHOTO DEPARTMENT: Vikram Sharma (Deputy Photo Editor), all that he did. Be it winning the Cricket not change its foreign policy perspective,
Rajwant Singh Rawat, Yasir Iqbal (Principal Photographers), World Cup in 1992, to setting up a chain of nothing will change in Pakistan. The army
Chandra Deep Kumar (Senior Photographer); Mumbai: Mandar Suresh
Deodhar (Chief Photographer), Danesh Adil Jassawala (Photographer); cancer hospitals named after his mother wants India as a permanent enemy and to
Kolkata: Subir Halder (Principal Photographer);
Chennai: N.G. Jaison (Senior Photographer) or taking the political plunge in 1996. In be a dominant force in Afghanistan.
PHOTO RESEARCHERS: Prabhakar Tiwari (Chief Photo Researcher), his first election in 1997, his party did not Our cover story this week, put together
Saloni Vaid (Principal Photo Researcher),
Shubhrojit Brahma (Senior Photo Researcher) win a single seat. To his credit, he did not by Wajahat S. Khan, our contributing
CHIEF OF GRAPHICS: Tanmoy Chakraborty
ART DEPARTMENT: Sanjay Piplani (Senior Art Director); give up. His tenacity has to be admired. writer from Pakistan, examines Khan’s
Vikas Verma (Associate Art Director); He can be consistent, too. At the india challenges. Group Editorial Director
Bhoomesh Dutt Sharma (Senior Designer)
Siddhant Jumde (Senior Illustrator) today conclave in New Delhi in 2003, (Publishing) Raj Chengappa looks at what
PRODUCTION DEPARTMENT: Harish Agarwal (Chief of Production),
Naveen Gupta (Chief Coordinator), seven years after launching the Pakistan India can expect from Khan.
Vijay Kumar Sharma (Senior Coordinator)
Tehreek-e-Insaf, he spoke of standing up Relations between India and Paki-
PUBLISHING DIRECTOR: Manoj Sharma
to vested interests and the “small cor- stan are wildly unpredictable and swing
ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER: Anil Fernandes (Impact)
IMPACT TEAM rupt elite that keeps siphoning off all the from extremes of friendship to war and
Senior General Manager: Jitender Lad (West) resources. The rich get richer and the poor near-war. I met Prime Minister Nawaz
General Manager: Mayur Rastogi (North),
Upendra Singh (Bangalore), poorer”. A tenor not very different from Sharif shortly before he swept to power
Kaushiky Gangulie (East)
GROUP CHIEF MARKETING OFFICER: Vivek Malhotra his victory speech a day after the July 25 on a landslide verdict in 2013. He prom-
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general elections where his party emerged ised peace. At a breakfast meeting in
SALES AND OPERATIONS: D.V.S. Rama Rao, Chief General Manager
Deepak Bhatt, General Manager (National Sales) as the single largest formation. Lahore, he told me that Pakistan would
Vipin Bagga, Deputy General Manager (Operations)
Rajeev Gandhi, Regional Sales Manager (North) Khan is well-intentioned, cares about soon buy power from India. We saw how
his country and is in politics to make a quickly that degenerated into bitter acri-
difference. Now for the hard part. He steps mony—terror attacks at Pathankot and
into the driver’s seat of a nuclear weapon- Uri followed by cross-border retaliatory
armed country riven by sectarian strife, raids by the Indian army. In the India-
whose notable exports are the jihadists its Pakistan relationship, one lives with
terror factories pump into India and Af- disappointment and hope.
Volume XLIII Number 33; For the week
ghanistan even as Pak istan’s economy tee- In his victory speech, Khan said he
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GROUP PEDGITO R6IAL DIRECTOR:Raj Chengappa P rime Minister Imran Khan. This ing influence of the Pakistan army thPaGt 9has
EDITOR:Ajit Kumar Jha (Research) is something Pakistan, India ruled the country for 33 of its 71 years of
GROUP CREATIVE EDITOR:Nilanjan Das; GROUP PHOTO EDITOR:Bandeep Singh
MANAGTINHG EEDIT OCRSO:KUaiR JaTbi rI FSrie sIeN, R ajesh Jha and, indeed the world, will need existence. He must also coTuHnEt eTrR cArUitMicAis OmF
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Sandeep Unnithan
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Mumbai:M.G. Arun Hyderabad:Amarnath K. Menon Chandigarh:Asit Jolly the years, from his days as the charis- timate this charismatic leader who can
SENIOR EDITORS:Shweta Punj, Sasi Nair, Alokparna Das
Jaipur:Rohit Parihar matic cricket captain of Pakistan, I least be bold, audacious and headstrong. This
SENIOR ASSOCIATE EDITORS:Kaushik Deka, Ashish Mukherjee
Mumbai:Suhani Singh, Kiran Dinkar Tare; patna:Amitabh Srivastava expected the glamour boy to transition is where I think he will, sooner or later,
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:Shougat Dasgupta, Chinki Sinha to PM of his country, though I did find become a problem for the army. There
Kolkata:Romita Sengupta; Bhopal:Rahul Noronha;
Thiruvananthapuram:Jeemon Jacob; BeiJing:Ananth Krishnan him sincere, dogged and passionate in is a belief that as long as the army does
ASSISTANT EDITOR:pune:Aditi S. Pai
PHOTO DEPARTMENT:Vikram Sharma (Deputy Photo Editor), all that he did. Be it winning the Cricket not change its foreign policy perspective,
Rajwant Singh Rawat, YasirIqbal (Principal Photographers), World Cup in 1992, to setting up a chain of nothing will change in Pakistan. The army
Chandra Deep Kumar (Senior Photographer); Mumbai:Mandar Suresh
Deodhar (Chief Photographer), Danesh Adil Jassawala (Photographer); cancer hospitals named after his mother wants India as a permanent enemy and to
Kolkata:Subir Halder (Principal Photographer);
Chennai:N.G. Jaison (Senior Photographer) or taking the political plunge in 1996. In be a dominant force in Afghanistan.
PHOTO RESEARCHERS:Prabhakar Tiwari (Chief Photo Researcher), his first election in 1997, his party did not Our cover story this week, put together
Saloni Vaid (Principal Photo Researcher),
Shubhrojit Brahma (Senior Photo Researcher) win a single seat. To his credit, he did not by Wajahat S. Khan, our contributing
CHIEF OF GRAPHICS:Tanmoy Chakraborty
ART DEPARTMENT:Sanjay Piplani (Senior Art Director); give up. His tenacity has to be admired. writer from Pakistan, examines Khan’s
Vikas Verma (Associate Art Director); He can be consistent, too. At the india challenges. Group Editorial Director
Bhoomesh Dutt Sharma (Senior Designer)
Siddhant Jumde (Senior Illustrator) todayconclave in New Delhi in 2003, (Publishing) Raj Chengappa looks at what
PRODUCTION DEPARTMENT:Harish Agarwal (Chief of Production),
Naveen Gupta (Chief Coordinator), seven years after launching the Pakistan India can expect from Khan.
Vijay Kumar Sharma (Senior Coordinator)
Tehreek-e-Insaf, he spoke of standing up Relations between India and Paki-
PUBLISHING DIRECTOR:Manoj Sharma
to vested interests and the “small cor- stan are wildly unpredictable and swing
ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER:Anil Fernandes (Impact)
IMPACT TEAM rupt elite that keeps siphoning off all the from extremes of friendship to war and
Senior General Manager: Jitender Lad (West) resources. The rich get richer and the poor near-war. I met Prime Minister Nawaz
General Manager: Mayur Rastogi (North),
Upendra Singh (Bangalore), poorer”. A tenor not very different from Sharif shortly before he swept to power
Kaushiky Gangulie (East)
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can be dismissed as hypocri- Hindu illegal imm ig rants
tical, the BJP’s intentions from Bangladesh who have
also raise eyebrows. Party settled in Assam and are not
chief Amit Shah has been on the NRC will still become
trying to blunt opposition citizens. The BJP says these
claims that the policy is amendments will protect
yet another example of the the Hindu identity of Ass-
BJP’s anti-Muslim agenda am, but it fails to take into
by asserting that illegal account the strength of pa-
immigrants are a threat to rochial feelings in the state,
national security. In Parlia- the fear among Assamese
m ent, the Shiv Sena asked of the cultural hegemony of
Hindu Bengalis. Protests
meant the amendments
“It’s a plan
were put in cold storage, but
to throw
will the BJP revive them
out Bengali- once the NRC is published
speaking people later this year?
and Biharis... Going by the NDA
government’s approach to
this will lead to
Hindu immigrants, there
a bloodbath”
is every likelihood that the
MAMATA BANERJEE bill will be revived. After the
West Bengal CM Narendra Modi govern-
ment came to power, several
steps were taken to simplify
the processing of long-term
tribes being omitted from dhi argues that the “NRC a question about whether visas (LTVs) and citizenship
the NRC. And many of them was initiated by the UPA Rohingya migrants were for Hindu minorities from
are Hindus. “Just around five to fulfil the commitment involved in terror activities, neighbouring countries.
per cent of people in Muslim- made in the Assam Accord giving MoS for home affairs, The government has relaxed
dominated districts such (1985). But the manner in Kiren Rijiju, an opportunity norms for those staying on
as Dhubri and Hailakandi which this exercise has been to describe the Rohingya LTV, allowing them to buy
have been excluded from undertaken by the BJP once again as illegal immi- property, open bank ac-
the NRC,” says an official government leaves much to grants (rather than refugees) counts and obtain PANs as
involved in the process, “but be desired”. and accuse them of commi t- well as Aadhaar cards.
in Assamese-dominated dis- Few people in Assam are t ing crimes in India. No Amidst the politics, what
tricts such as Dibrugarh, or buying the Congress line, opposition party asked Rijiju is uncertain is the fate of the
the tribal-dominated Karbi though, with many blam- for evidence of these crimes. four million people excluded
Anglong, the exclusion rates ing the party’s ‘politics of However, in direct from the draft NRC. On July
are much higher.” appeasement’ for allowing con t ravention to its own 31, the Supreme Court made
The Congress response the situation to spiral out app roach to illegal immi- it clear that no action could
to the NRC has been of control. “For the sake of grants, the BJP has sought be taken against people on
confusing at best. Pointing votes,” says Dileep Chandan, to ease the path to citizen- the basis of the NRC. Those
to several surprise exclusi- a Guwahati-based political ship for ill egal Hindu, Sikh, excluded can file their claims
ons, such as the nephew of analyst, “Devakanta Barua, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi and and objections between
ex-president Fakhruddin Ali the Congress president dur- Christian immigrants who Aug ust 30 and September
Ahmed, the Congress claims ing the Emergency, enabled a have entered India from 28 this year. What will hap-
the BJP is using the NRC to policy of ‘Ali (Muslims), coo- Bangladesh, Afghanistan pen to illegal immigrants
divide and rule. Meanwhile, lie (tea tribes) and Bengali’ and Pakistan. In 2016, the once the final NRC lists are
former Assam chief minister and helped millions of illegal BJP sought to amend the published? Deportation
and Congress stalwart Bangladeshi immigrants Citizenship Act 1955, to is likely impossible. What
Tarun Gogoi insists the settle in Assam.” provide these illegal im- rights will these now state-
NRC is his brainchild while If outrage from both migrants citizenship. Should less people have? Will they
party president Rahul Gan- Congress and the Trinamool the amendments be passed, be allowed to buy property?
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What if they have already ment first prepares the INDEX
bought property? Will they list of voters and the EC
be entitled to state welfare? doesn’t have a role in it. Ties That Bind
What about the status of The current NRC lists
their children born after March 1971 as its cutoff,
publication of the NRC? thus granting effective At the Indo-Pacific Business Forum in Washington DC
As for voting rights, amnesty to ‘illegal’ im- on July 30, the United States confirmed it had conferred
the home ministry has migrants who moved to India with the Strategic Trade Authorisation 1 (STA-1)
said that was for the Assam before that year. designation, enabling access to, among other things,
Election Commission to This was challenged by sensitive weapons technology. The move, said Navtej
Sarna, Indian ambassador to the US, was inevitable
decide. But chief election Motiur Rahman of the
once India had been elevated to defence partner status
commissioner O.P. Rawat Asom Sanmilita Maha-
in 2016. “It is a sign of trust,” Sarna said, and “testifies to
says the “decision to sangha, which filed a peti-
our excellent record in maintaining non-proliferation of
include or not include the tion in the Supreme Court
these technologies.” Both countries will have ‘2+2’ trade
names of those excluded claiming that the granting
talks in September. While the bulk of India’s spending on
by the NRC is not for the of citizenship to those who
defence is on Russia-made equipment, the US has over the
EC to take. The EC has moved to Assam before
last decade become a leading supplier. As China increases
asked the chief electoral 1971 still threatened the
strategic investments in the neighbourhood, the US will
officer, Assam, to work existence of indigenous
see India as a critical counterbalance and vice versa.
with the NRC state coor- people. The court is likely
dinator so that no eligible to decide on Rahman’s
$9.7 36
voter is left off the rolls”. plea by end August. Any
BILLION
As the process stands, the verdict in his favour may
district revenue depart- throw the NRC off gear. n
Value of US products Countries have STA-1
India might have imported status. India is the only
in the past 7 years, says South Asian country
US commerce secretary to have it. Other Asian
PULLQUOTE Wilbur Ross, had STA-1 countries with it are
status been granted South Korea and Japan
This is a problem that stems from a
population explosion. People wanting
jobs, people being frustrated by the fact 550% 62%
that they’re not able to get jobs. There is
an angst spreading across communities...
it’s happening everywhere, not just in Growth in US arms exports Of India’s defence
Rajasthan... to India during 2013-17 supplies (2013-17)
(compared to the 5 years imported from Russia,
before it); exports to down from 79% (2008-
Pakistan in the same 12). India is world’s largest
period dropped by 76% importer of weapons
TThhee ““pprroobblleemm””,, tthhee ““tthhiinnggss””
tthhaatt RRaajjaasstthhaann cchhiieeff mmiinniisstteerr
Vasundhara Raje ccllaaiimmeedd iinn aa
TTVV iinntteerrvviieeww wweerree hhaappppeenn iinngg $25.7 #9
BILLION
““eevveerryywwhheerree””,, iiss aa eeuupphhee mmiissttiicc
rreeffeerreennccee ttoo tthhee llyynncchhiinnggss tthhaatt
ssccaarr tthhee ssttaattee sshhee ggoovveerrnnss,, Value of Indian imports India’s rank among US
mmoosstt rreecceennttllyy oonn JJuullyy 2200 iinn from the US in 2017; trading partners in 2017—
AAllwwaarr wwhheenn aa mmaann,, bbeeaatteenn bbyy India’s exports to the US China (1), Mexico (3),
ccooww vviiggiillaanntteess,, aappppaarreennttllyy ddiieedd were worth $48.6 billion. Britain (7) are examples
dduuee ttoo ppoolliiccee nneegglliiggeennccee.. OOff In 2018, value of Indian of countries in the top 10.
ccoouurrssee,, AAllwwaarr wwaass aallssoo wwhheerree imports from the US up to USA is India’s 2nd largest
PPeehhlluu KKhhaann ddiieedd iinn AApprriill llaasstt May was $12.5 billion trading partner
yyeeaarr,, bbeeaatteenn ttoo ddeeaatthh bbyy ggaauu
rakshaks.. WWhheenn tthhee SSuupprreemmee
CCoouurrtt rreecceennttllyy ccaauuttiioonneedd $63.9
BILLION
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AADHAAR’S FAILSAFE
BRAG IS EXPOSED
KIRAN JONNALAGADDA
This past week, TRAI chairman Ram Sewak Sharma (public distribution system) that shoulders the blame.
responded to a heckler on Twitter by sharing his The UIDAI’s tendency to appropriate credit while
Aadhaar number and daring the heckler to harm distancing itself from blame reflects a deep insecurity
him. He expressed confidence that no harm would befall over its own survival. The insecurity shows up tellingly
him, but promised no retaliation against anyone who tried in the deliberate obliteration of the difference between
and succeeded. A number of individuals stepped up to the identification, authentication and authorisation.
challenge. Sharma’s primary and backup mobile numbers, The researcher who cloned Sharma’s Aadhaar card made
PAN, residential address and even bank account numbers a valid copy even though the UIDAI recognises only the
quickly became public. One researcher demonstrated how electronic record as valid; all paper cards are just copies.
he could deposit a rupee into Sharma’s account without his The merchant that accepted this card is then expected to
consent, using his Aadhaar number alone, thereby creating validate it against the UIDAI’s electronic record, which most
an electronic trail of financial relationships. never do. The UIDAI ignores this malpractice to encourage
Sharma’s stunt became national news. Commentators greater use/ acceptance of Aadhaar. Even if the merchant
expressed shock at how easily so much private information were to validate it using the ‘demographic authentication’
came out in public. Three days later, Sharma wrote his protocol, it only proves that the details on the card are valid.
own op-ed claiming victory because no harm The merchant cannot distinguish between
had befallen him, after all, despite severe Sharma and an impersonator using his
inconveniences. Aadhaar remained secure card. This confusion between ‘identification’
because no one had managed to authenticate and ‘authentication’ places the onus of
himself as Sharma. The votaries of Aadhaar authenticating the individual on the merchant,
pointed out that, as a public figure, much of while Aadhaar just hogs the credit for it.
Sharma’s private information was already public, The UIDAI also provides an eKYC service
so Aadhaar wasn’t a vector. And yet, at least some that performs actual authentication via
of his information was discovered via Aadhaar, biometrics or an OTP. Thanks to pro-Aadhaar
and one researcher even opened accounts lobbying, eKYC is mandated for phone
at various merchants on his behalf using a Sharma should connections and bank accounts. However,
reconstructed copy of the paper Aadhaar card. when an individual proves that s/he is who
advocate better
To understand this dichotomy, where both s/he is, it doesn’t mean s/he is implicitly
hygiene for
sides believe they are right while making authorising a transaction on her/ his behalf,
Aadhaar, starting
opposing claims, we must examine what they and yet this confusion between ‘authentication’
with an honest
mean when they say “Aadhaar” and “harm”. and ‘authorisation’ was the basis of the Airtel
Sharma appears to have chosen a very assessment of Payments Bank fraud, in which Rs 190 crore
narrow definition: ‘harm’ via Aadhaar is if the status quo of subsidy money was diverted using the exact
someone manages to use the UIDAI’s services procedures the UIDAI had prescribed, without
to authenticate himself at any service provider; the knowledge of the affected individuals.
nothing else is harm. So, the researcher who Sharma might as well have issued a
successfully impersonated Sharma at various merchants had challenge to be infected with a disease, and then claimed
not harmed him, because those merchants had not followed victory that no one had managed while he stood in splendid
procedure specified by the UIDAI. secure isolation. Such a stunt would miss the point that
Sharma’s quest to establish the UIDAI’s innocence is an diseases are opportunistic, and no one is safe when Aadhaar’s
unfortunate feature of much pro-Aadhaar commentary. hygiene is so poor. Sharma would do well to advocate better
The UIDAI serves a central but small role in the overall hygiene instead, starting with an honest assessment of the
Aadhaar ecosystem. Any beneficial use in the ecosystem status quo. We should expect no less after the stellar work he
is to Aadhaar’s credit, but harmful use is not because of has done during his stint as TRAI chairman. n
Aadhaar, but because some other organisation did not
act appropriately. When a citizen receives her rations via Kiran Jonnalagadda hosts peer-reviewed discussions for
Aadhaar authentication, it gets credit for making her life technology practitioners at HasGeek and advocates for digital
easier; when she is denied rations, however, it is the PDS civil liberties at the Internet Freedom Foundation
16 INDIA TODAY AUGUST 13, 2018 Illustration by TANMOY CHAKRABORTY

SHOW ME
GLASSHOUSE
THE MONEY
THE COMEBACK SAGA
Walking in step with the
BJP’s stated priority
to bring greater transparen-
Finance Minister Arun cy in financial transactions,
Jaitley has been confined the RSS on Guru Purnima
to his 2, Krishna Menon (July 27-29) this year,
Marg residence since early June departed from its decades-
after a kidney replacement old tradition of anonymous
surgery. Railway minister donations. Workers were
Piyush Goyal continues to encouraged to register their
hold additional charge names and pay by cheque.
of the finance ministry.
Jaitley has started
meeting a chosen few
friends from across
a specially installed
glass partition. Finance
ministry bureaucrats
video-conference with
a convalescing Jaitley on
various policy issues. The buzz
on Raisina Hill is that Jaitley will
return to North Block after the
monsoon session of Parliament
ends on August 10. Seating
changes are likely in office—
Jaitley will sit at the end of a long
conference table away If Not PV, Who?
from visitors.
Illustration by SIDDHANT JUMDE Kerala chief minister
Pinarayi Vijayan
M ZHAZO leaves for Minnesota in the
LOSING
US on August 19 for treat-
TRACK ment of an undisclosed ail-
mmeenntt.. TThhee 1177--ddaayy ttrriipp
Tejashwi Yadav’s cycle yatra
ffoolllloowwss cclliinniiccaall tteessttss
from Gaya’s Gandhi Maidan
iinn MMaarrcchh aatt AAppoolllloo
got off to a lousy start. He had
HHoossppiittaall,, CChheenn--
to change bicycles four times
nai. The state
as they developed snags, at
least once because of a flat tyre. government
Then Yadav blamed the state will bear the
government for the lousy roads, cost of the
forgetting, of course, that he held treatment.
History Bites
the road construction portfolio The buzz in
till July 2017. the state
Former Congress president Sonia
secretariat
Gandhi didn’t mind Odisha PCC chief
is about who
Niranjan Patnaik’s veiled critique of party
president Rahul Gandhi’s wink in Parliament will be acting
at a recent meeting of the extended Congress CM and home
Working Committee. But she snapped when mmiinniisstteerr.. GGiivveenn
Patnaik held out for a special status for PPVV’’ss oonnee--mmaann--
Odisha like Andhra Pradesh. Clearly, Sonia sshhooww ssttyyllee,, nnoo
Gandhi hasn’t forgotten that the state’s oonnee mmiigghhtt wwaanntt
bifurcation was largely her idea. to step in.
—Sandeep Unnithan with Shweta Punj, Anshuman Tiwari, Sahil Joshi,
Kiran D. Tare, Jeemon Jacob and Amitabh Srivastava
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