Weekend Reads
1. As the Reserve Bank of India governor Raghuram Rajan decides to quit, Sunil Jain, writing in the Financial Express, says that the economist will most be remembered for cleaning up India’s banks and targeting their cronyism in offering soft loans to big industrialists.
2. Reserve Bank of India governor Raghuram Rajan “was among the first to warn about the threat of crony capitalism”, points out Roshan Kishore in the Mint.
3. There’s little to cheer in the Gulberg Society massacre verdict, says Harsh Mander in the Hindustan Times.
4. Did the Union government starve the states of funds in the current fiscal year, asks Muthukumar K in the Business Line.
5. In Open, Rahul Bhattacharya’s in-depth investigation into the Assam Boro-Bengali Muslim riots of 2012.
6. Modi’s “shock” at Orlando is hypocritical; most victims would have been criminals in India, argues Sambuddha Mitra Mustafi in the Business Line.
7. In Mint, Pritha Sen asks, why are there few cold foods in Indian cuisine?
8. The Economist explains why Donald Trump’s rhetoric works so well.
9. Ariel Sabar lays out the unbelievable tale of Jesus’ wife in the Atlantic.
10. Right-wing movements around the world use language to lay claim to women, talking about them as possessions, argues Debuk, a feminist linguistics blog.
11. On the Arab Humanist blog, SB Zaki explains the status of Arab women before and after Islam.
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