Weekend reads

  1. The attack on the cafe in Dhaka is an attack on Bangladesh's collective national identity, it is the "beginning of the end", says SN Rasul in a bitter moment of introspection in the Dhaka Tribune.
  2. The Dhaka attack was predictable; it was the culmination of violence that has gone unchecked by the Awami League government, writes Jason Burke in the Guardian.
  3. The targeting of the Ahmadi community in Pakistan speaks of the country's dangerous drive to "cleanse" and "purify", writes Khalid Ahmed in the Indian Express.
  4. In the Hindu, Jacob Koshy writes that Indian scientists may be closer to detecting whether patients infected with HIV will go on to have AIDS.
  5. In Lounge-Livemint, Sumana Mukherjee tracks the release of Bangalore's lab beagles.
  6. In Hindu BLInk, Gaurav Deka documents the queer spaces of Delhi, which take on a different identity during the day.
  7. In the Telegraph, Gordon Rayner describes how Boris Johnson, the Conservative leader of the Brexit campaign, was felled by party colleague Michael Gove's devious "cuckoo nest" plot.
  8. But does Michael Gove even exist, asks Glen Newey in the London Review of Books.
  9. In the New Yorker, George Packer examines whether President Ashraf Ghani, theorist of the failed state, can bring back Afghanistan from the brink of dissolution.
  10. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav is gradually stamping his authority on the Samajwadi Party, writes Virendra Singh Rawat in the Business Standard.

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