Weekend reads

  1. As Dalits get politically empowered, they are likely to grow increasingly disenchanted with a constitutional politics that is not capable of bringing about social transformation, says Pratap Bhanu Mehta in the Indian Express.
  2. In the Hindu, Uma Mahadevan-Dasgupta writes about Bombay/Mumbai, the city of stories.
  3. Photographs of Afghanistan have changed in tandem with its history, writes Malavika Karlekar in the Telegraph.
  4. Artist SH Raza, who died on Saturday, was driven by an "inner necessity", says Rosalyn D'Mello in Livemint-Lounge.
  5. In Hindu BLInk, Urvashi Butalia on the contrasting mythologies of Sita, the "good" woman, and Qandeel, the "bad".
  6. Is Donald Trump a racist, asks Nicholas Kristof in the New York Times.
  7. In the Guardian, Victoria Coren Mitchell on the comedic potential of Boris Johnson sharing a large country house with fellow Brexiteers David Davis and Liam Fox.
  8. The Munich shooting reveals the identity crises sweeping across Europe, writes Alessio Colonelli in the Independent.
  9. Also in the Indian Express, Parimal Dabhi finds out what it is like to be Dalit in Una.
  10. In the Hindustan Times, Karan Thapar on how governments in Arunachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand followed the letter of the law but forgot the spirit of it.