Weekend Reads
- Paranjoy Guha Thaukrta in the Economic and Political Weekly back in June called on the Supreme Court to review its decisions clearing Reliance Jio on allegations of rigging the system.
- The policemen of Kashmir now face fire from all sides, reports Basharat Masood in the Indian Express.
- Are we ready for a new Indian superhero on screen, asks Sankhayan Ghosh in Mint?
- "Ma Teresa, you who made waters thirst for the thirsty, food hunger for the hungry, the rich go a-begging for beggars, now as Saint Teresa, you have yet to do something beautiful for your India," writes Gopalkrishna Gandhi in the Telegraph.
- Ajay Shah explains why policy-making in India has to first walk before it can start running, and then follows this up, with Satya Poddar, on translating that policy into a way to implement the Goods and Services Tax.
- Bhavya Dore in Blink writes about a flower that blooms once in eight years in Maharashtra and nearby states.
- "One of the greatest batsmen of the modern era," Mithali Raj speaks to Cricket Monthly's Shashank Kishore about her life in cricket.
- Marc Parry in the Guardian examines the work of Harvard historian Caroline Ekins, who helped uncover the brutal truth about the British empire.
- "It would be a salutary thing to have some old-school feminist pugnacity injected back into the culture," writes Zoe Heller reviewing two recent books on the sexuality of young girls for the New York Review of Books.
- Irina Aleksander in the New York Times Magazine wonderfully condenses the convoluted story of Edward Snowden's journey to Hollywood.
