Weekend Reads
- To reduce Tamil identity to jallikattu is both farcical and tragic, argues Ramachandra Guha in the Hindustan Times.
- Kaira, Shyra and Shanaya: In Mint, Sohini Chattopadhayay writes about Bollywood’s first-world yoga names and what they say about an anxiety to fit in with a globalised world.
- In the Hindu, AR Venkatachalapathy explains how jallikattu transcended its regional and caste definition and became emblematic of Tamil culture.
- In the New Yorker, Stephen Metcalf explains philosopher Richard Rorty’s philosophical argument for national pride.
- In the Los Angles Review of Books, Nile Green reviews Francis R. Bradley’s Forging Islamic Power and Place: The Legacy of Shaykh Daud bin ’Abd Allah al-Fatani in Mecca and Southeast Asia, which provides a new look at the history of the Indian Ocean.
- In the New Yorker, Rozina Ali writes about the erasure of Islam from Rumi’s poetry.
- In the Economist’s 1853 magazine, David Rennie explains how United States President Donald Trump approaches diplomacy like a Qing-dynasty emperor
- In the New York Times, Beverly Gage reads the classical novel that actually predicted United States President Donald Trump.
- When faced with big totals like in the recent ODI against England, Indian have historically struggled, but it all began to change around 2005, recounts Paaji Punter in Mint.
- On the BBC website, Dave Lee writes about an important cultural shift taking place now across the globe: dogs have overtaken cats as the internet’s most popular animal.
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