Weekend Reads

  1. In the Indian Express, Surjit Bhalla writes demonetisation as a reform measure may not help tackle black money unless it is accompanied by taxation reforms and changes in electoral laws.
  2. G Sampath in The Hindu says that for Indian democracy to remain healthy, it needs political leaders who can challenge the prime minister as an equal.
  3. Historian Ramachandra Guha argues in the Hindustan Times that coterie culture continues to hurt the Congress party. 
  4. In The Hindu, PV Srividya writes on the financial shockwaves that have hit the garment town of Tirupur in Tamil Nadu. 
  5. In the Economic Times, Ajay Vir Jakhar warns the government against letting rural cooperative banks sink in the transition to new currency notes since this could devastate the rural economy. 
  6. Was Trump’s victory a sign of the defeat of liberalism constructed on the values of diversity? Ross Douthat in New York Times analyses the crisis liberalism is facing in America. 
  7. The Guardian asks 1960s rights activists what they think of the current trajectory of world politics. 
  8. In Fountain Ink, Nandini Krishnan tracks the menace of stalking that has killed several woman in India in the past two years. 
  9. Paula S Fass in the Aeon writes about the changing mechanics of adolescence and its sociological implications. 
  10. The Japan Times questions the rationale behind Japan signing a nuclear deal with India, which has refused to sign the Non-Proliferation Treaty.