Above the fold The day's top stories
1. As Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi joins the protests on the Hyderabad Central University campus, the Bharatiya Janata Party accuses him of the "politics of vulturisation". External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj says Rohith Vemula was not a Dalit and that the case has been turned into a "communal incident".
2. In Jammu and Kashmir, the BJP's patience wears thin as the People's Democratic Party delays taking a call on government formation.
3. On Arunachal Pradesh, Union Minister Kiren Rijuju says the government waited a month to recommend president's rule and it had nothing to do with cow slaughter; the Mithun sacrifice in front of the Raj Bhavan had been a "sign of aggression and violence".
4. Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif promises a complete probe on whether the Pathankot attack was grown on Pakistani soil.


Weekend reads
1. In the Mint Lounge, three photojournalists share the story behind three difficult images.
2. In the Hindu BLink, Sukumar Muralidharan takes a look at Gandhi in South Africa and finds a loyal subject of the Empire.
3. In the Hindu, Suhrith Parthsarthy finds that "contempt of court" is a term used rather liberally.
4. In the Indian Express, Ramachandra Guha argues that equality before law must also mean equality in social practices, such as the right to enter a temple.
5. In the Guardian, Natalie Nougayrede on why the documentary, Les Salafistes, is a tough watch but can held us understand terror.
6. In the Business Standard, TN Ninan on how the Congress party forgets its own track record when it protests against president's rule in Arunachal Pradesh.
7. In the New Yorker, Joshua Topolsky on whether Twitter can survive long.
8. In the Independent, Joshua Rentoul on how Prime Minister David Cameron's renegotiation of Britain's relationship with the European Union shows him to be a deft politician.
9. In Mint on Sunday, Sandhya Ramesh asks whether Planet IX could be the old Planet X or the notorious Nibiru.
10. In the Telegraph, Ruchir Joshi on the limits of the word "tolerance".