Above the Fold: Top stories of the day
1. Five policemen have been suspended as authorities carry out an investigation into the death of a journalist who was burnt alive in Uttar Pradesh.
2. Nearly 110 hours after the search operation began, a Navy sub-surface vessel has detected an underwater signal that is likely to be coming from the wreckage of the missing Dornier aircraft.
Weekend Reads
1. Pradip Phanjoubam in the Economics and Political Weekly recounts the exact events of the cross-border operation in Manipur and the ugly chest-thumping from the government that followed.
2. China is better us at practically everything you can think of, Aakar Patel writes in Mint, saying even that the political freedom will find its way to the Middle Kingdom.
3. Devangshu Datta in the Business Standard goes on a quest to understand what happens when social media begins to drive the news.
4. An American industrial tragedy from a century ago teaches us all that we need to know about outraging effectively, writes Sidin Vadakut in Mint On Sunday.
5. Strategic success can only be achieved if we are committed to it and if our "dedication to reality is complete", writes Ajai Sahni in the Indian Express, saying jingoist and hypernationalist fantasies cannot be a foundation for it.
6. There's no loneliness like the loneliness of being Rahul Gandhi writes Aditya Sinha in Blink.
7. Swapan Dasgupta in The Times of India thinks that the accusations of chest thumping are the result of a thousand years of servility, and says we shouldn't be squeamish about trumpeting our successes.
8. New systems are needed, writes Mukul Sanwal in the Business Standard, but there is no alternative to a civil service for India that is based on merit.
9. Sruthisagar Yamunan in the Hindu, writes of a leading Dalit party's proposal to form a new front in Tamil Nadu.
10. Sanjukta Sharma, Dhamini Ratnam and Shamik Baig in Mint Lounge write about a new clutch of satirists emerging online through political cartoons.
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1. Five policemen have been suspended as authorities carry out an investigation into the death of a journalist who was burnt alive in Uttar Pradesh.
2. Nearly 110 hours after the search operation began, a Navy sub-surface vessel has detected an underwater signal that is likely to be coming from the wreckage of the missing Dornier aircraft.
Weekend Reads
1. Pradip Phanjoubam in the Economics and Political Weekly recounts the exact events of the cross-border operation in Manipur and the ugly chest-thumping from the government that followed.
2. China is better us at practically everything you can think of, Aakar Patel writes in Mint, saying even that the political freedom will find its way to the Middle Kingdom.
3. Devangshu Datta in the Business Standard goes on a quest to understand what happens when social media begins to drive the news.
4. An American industrial tragedy from a century ago teaches us all that we need to know about outraging effectively, writes Sidin Vadakut in Mint On Sunday.
5. Strategic success can only be achieved if we are committed to it and if our "dedication to reality is complete", writes Ajai Sahni in the Indian Express, saying jingoist and hypernationalist fantasies cannot be a foundation for it.
6. There's no loneliness like the loneliness of being Rahul Gandhi writes Aditya Sinha in Blink.
7. Swapan Dasgupta in The Times of India thinks that the accusations of chest thumping are the result of a thousand years of servility, and says we shouldn't be squeamish about trumpeting our successes.
8. New systems are needed, writes Mukul Sanwal in the Business Standard, but there is no alternative to a civil service for India that is based on merit.
9. Sruthisagar Yamunan in the Hindu, writes of a leading Dalit party's proposal to form a new front in Tamil Nadu.
10. Sanjukta Sharma, Dhamini Ratnam and Shamik Baig in Mint Lounge write about a new clutch of satirists emerging online through political cartoons.
