Weekend Reads
- India’s Hindu “majority” is an outcome of Independence and constitutional process, explains Dipankar Gupta in the Times of India.
- Their contrasting, yet complementing, campaign styles have turned Akhilesh and Dimple Yadav into Uttar Pradesh’s power couple. A victory in UP would make them a decisive force in national politics as well, writes Ajay Uprey in the Week.
- The dissent of Manoranjan Byapari: In Mint, Shamik Bag chronicles how a former Naxalite and rickshaw-puller became one of the most celebrated writers of Dalit literature in Bengali.
- The past three years have witnessed a blatant effort by communal forces to infiltrate viewer and reviewer responses to Hindi films, writes Anna MM Vetticad in the Business Line.
- In Open magazine, S Prassannarajan reviews Pankaj Mishra’s Age of Anger calling it an “indispensible addition to the canon of intellectual histories”.
- Ever wonder why facts do not change people political opinions? In the New Yorker, Elizabeth Kolbert writes about new discoveries about the human mind show the limitations of reason.
- After more than a half-century in the wilderness, the socialist left reemerges in America, writes Patrick Iber in the Nation.
- Make America great again. Take back control. Restore the caliphate. From politics to culture, we have been gripped by a wave of nostalgia. In the Guardian, Mohsin Hamid calls on storytellers to look ahead with hope.
- Is travel writing dead, asks Karan Mahajan in Granta.
- In Nautilus, Jordana Cepelewic profiles Harvey Friedman, the man who might be about to blow up mathematics.
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