Weekend Reads

  1. Ellen Barry of the New York Times spent four months reporting on a government programme that brings rural women into the big city and, in doing so, reveals much about the Indian dream.
  2. Chennai's floods last year didn't just damage property – it also left people struggling to handle post-traumatic stress disorder, reports Mahima A Jain in Blink. 
  3. Aakash Joshi argues, in the Indian Express, that calling the soldiers who died in Uri "martyrs" does them a disservice. "Martyrs, whatever else they may be, take a conscious decision to die." 
  4. Karnataka's Alipur has an unusually large number of deaf people, reports Bhavya Dore in Mint, and this community is now trying to reach out to the rest of the world. 
  5. "Despite their growing brawn, India’s armed forces still lack a brain," says the Economist. 
  6. A town called Uri – and how the attack on September 18 may now change it, reports Naveed Iqbal in the Indian Express. 
  7. NDTV's Truth vs Hype team looked into the pattern of donors on global terror watch lists helping fund Saudi-style Islamic schools in India.
  8. Cow vigilantism is just another trump card handed out to violent men to go out and rape, writes Nisha Susan in The Ladies Finger. 
  9. Andrew Sullivan, once an ever-online blogger, writes an (occasionally melodramatic) essay in Select/All about information addiction and always being connected.
  10. "I’m writing because I have a request," says Paul Farhi in the Washington Post. "Please stop calling us the media.”