Above the fold
1. Prime Minister Narendra Modi reaches Silicon Valley, meets Tim Cook of Apple, tours Tesla Motors with Elon Musk.
2. At the Group of Four meet on Saturday, leaders called for reform of the United Nations.
3. Alleged stone pelting over a Ganapati immersion procession leaves Dharwad tense.
4. The Central Bureau of Investigation raided the house of Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh, currently under the cloud of a disproportionate assets case.
Long reads
1. In the Hindu, Rakesh Sood on why India needs to recover lost political ground in Nepal, after the back and forth over that country's new constitution.
2. In the Indian Express, Shyam Saran on how political stability will elude Nepal if half its population feels shortchanged by the new constitution.
3. Jonathan Francis in the Guardian writes on why religion works.
4. David Sedaris in the New Yorker points out that the battle for gay marriage is really a battle to be just like any other dope who wants to get married.
5. In the Independent, David Usborne explains why British Prime Minister David Cameron is right to avoid the "annual windbaggery" of a UN gathering.
6. Arabinda Ray weighs in on the name, Aurangzeb, in the Telegraph.
7. Bhavya Dore writes in Hindu BLink on life after a long prison sentence.
8. Also in the Hindu, Mehboob Jeelani interviews Nandita Haksar, human rights lawyer and author of The Many Faces of Kashmiri Nationalism.
9. Also in the Indian Express, P. Chidambaram writes on how wrongheaded the National Encryption Policy was.
10. In Mint Lounge, Sumana Mukherjee warns of a crisis looming in the food service industry.
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1. Prime Minister Narendra Modi reaches Silicon Valley, meets Tim Cook of Apple, tours Tesla Motors with Elon Musk.
2. At the Group of Four meet on Saturday, leaders called for reform of the United Nations.
3. Alleged stone pelting over a Ganapati immersion procession leaves Dharwad tense.
4. The Central Bureau of Investigation raided the house of Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh, currently under the cloud of a disproportionate assets case.
Long reads
1. In the Hindu, Rakesh Sood on why India needs to recover lost political ground in Nepal, after the back and forth over that country's new constitution.
2. In the Indian Express, Shyam Saran on how political stability will elude Nepal if half its population feels shortchanged by the new constitution.
3. Jonathan Francis in the Guardian writes on why religion works.
4. David Sedaris in the New Yorker points out that the battle for gay marriage is really a battle to be just like any other dope who wants to get married.
5. In the Independent, David Usborne explains why British Prime Minister David Cameron is right to avoid the "annual windbaggery" of a UN gathering.
6. Arabinda Ray weighs in on the name, Aurangzeb, in the Telegraph.
7. Bhavya Dore writes in Hindu BLink on life after a long prison sentence.
8. Also in the Hindu, Mehboob Jeelani interviews Nandita Haksar, human rights lawyer and author of The Many Faces of Kashmiri Nationalism.
9. Also in the Indian Express, P. Chidambaram writes on how wrongheaded the National Encryption Policy was.
10. In Mint Lounge, Sumana Mukherjee warns of a crisis looming in the food service industry.
