Weekend reads

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. In Mint-Lounge, Elizabeth Kuruvilla on the challenges of living an eco-friendly urban life.
  4. Three narratives clash in the Kashmir Valley: the national, the Pakistani and the Kashmiri, writes Riyaz Wani in Hindu BLInk.
  5. 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.
  6. Never mind the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, let us have English in our schools, writes Chanakya in the Hindustan Times.
  7. In the New York Times, Kaitlyn Greenidge remembers the American elections of 2008, which were a celebration. Is 2016 the opposite, she asks.
  8. 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.
  9. James Denselow, writing on Al Jazeera, compares the careful campaign to reclaim Mosul from the Islamic State and the Russian bombardment of Aleppo.
  10. In the Independent, Robert Fisk investigates the mystery of a Scottish ambulances found in Aleppo.