Weekend Read
1. Newspapers, internet and mobile blocked: in the Indian Express, Basharat Masood writes about how the complete information blockade in Kashmir.
2. The Business Line’s weekend magazine has a special issue devoted to quizzing in India.
3. Twenty five years after they started, SA Aiyar explains the good, bad and ugly of economic reforms in the Times of India.
4. As Turkey fights of an attempted coup, here’s Anvar Alikhan in Scroll explaining why there has never been a military dictatorship in India.
5. Zack Beauchamp writing in Vox explains why Turkey’s coup failed.
6. In Mint, Suhrith Parthasarthy explains the fascinating history behind Portugal’s Euro 2016 victory.
7. The idea of unifying Islam is recent – and a bad one, argues Faisal Devji in Aeon.
8. Nice attack: We should not pretend that any state can stop one madman in a truck. Most official responses are likely only to make things worse, explains Simon Jenkins in the Guardian.
9. Productivity is slowing and inequality is growing. Jason Furman, US Barack President Obama’s Chief Economist, explains what’s causing it in Evonomics.
10. Julia Rosen with an Armageddon lesson in Science: Here’s how the world could end – and what we can do about it.

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