Weekend reads
- By banishing Pakistan from Bollywood, India has undermined its own soft power and made the war-mongers in Pakistan happy, writes Khaled Ahmed in the Indian Express.
- If it is to strengthen India's political processes, the Supreme Court needs to revisit the "Hindutva cases" of 1995, writes Suhrith Parthasarathy in the Hindu.
- In Mint-Lounge, Elizabeth Kuruvilla on the challenges of living an eco-friendly urban life.
- Three narratives clash in the Kashmir Valley: the national, the Pakistani and the Kashmiri, writes Riyaz Wani in Hindu BLInk.
- More than 125 years after two Parsi girls fell to their deaths from the Rajabai Clock Tower in Mumbai, Aditi Sen, writing in Mint on Sunday, investigates an enduring mystery.
- Never mind the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, let us have English in our schools, writes Chanakya in the Hindustan Times.
- In the New York Times, Kaitlyn Greenidge remembers the American elections of 2008, which were a celebration. Is 2016 the opposite, she asks.
- Federal Bureau of Investigation director James Comey's cryptic email about Hillary Clinton is a "fitting end to this dumpster fire of an election", writes Richard Wolffe in the Guardian.
- James Denselow, writing on Al Jazeera, compares the careful campaign to reclaim Mosul from the Islamic State and the Russian bombardment of Aleppo.
- In the Independent, Robert Fisk investigates the mystery of a Scottish ambulances found in Aleppo.