The Latest: Top stories of the day
1. Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Start Up initiative on Saturday, including an income tax break for new firms and a fund of Rs 10,000 crore.
2. Kolkata Police have arrested the son of a Trinamool Congress politician accused of having killed a solider in a hit-and-run case.
3. The Indian cricket team surprisingly has become the No 1 team in test cricket after five years, though this may be short lived.
Weekend Reads
1. Arun Janardhanan for the Indian Express visits a cattle shelter in Coimbatore to see what happens to bulls when jallikattu has been banned.
2. You might think dystopias exist in movies, writes Dexter Filkins in the New Yorker, unless, of course, you've been to Pakistan.
3. Rukmini S and Samarth Bansal in the Hindu have put together an interactive piece that tells you what India's most common names are.
4. Why has Sherlock Holmes and his small world been subjected to more analysis than any other literary character, asks Sandipan Deb in Mint?
5. Nilanjana Roy in the Business Standard tells us of a persuasive, slowly unsettling domestic novel called Ghachar Ghochar.
6. In Pakistan, the label "burger kid" is a loaded one writes Sana Maher in Al Jazeera.
7. How a team of conservationists made Karnataka’s forests a freely navigable haven for tigers, elephants and leopards, writes Padmaparna Ghosh in Mint.
8. Anjuli Bhargava in the Business Standard documents the pain of getting school admissions.
Reading
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‘Taaza Khabar’ season 2 review: Luck runs out in a stale follow-up
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From the memoir: A Muslim girl survivor’s account of the hours before the 2002 Gujarat riots
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Malayalam actor Siddique moves Supreme Court seeking anticipatory bail in rape case
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Are IIM Mumbai’s high rankings based on inflated numbers?
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The myth of overworking: Reducing workload and hours actually improves productivity, research shows
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Why women driving trains in India want other jobs
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A new book on Pakistani politics looks back at the freedom uprising in East Pakistan
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A new book finds that poor Muslims in Godhra are still ghettoised even 20 years after the riots
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History revisited: How India responded to Iran’s pitch for a confederation with Pakistan in 1958
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2024 JCB Prize for Literature: Read the opening passages of the ten longlisted novels