Weekend Reads
- After two incidents, an anti-immigration website with videos of Indian families in the United States has left South Asians across the country worried, writes Caroline O’Donovan in Buzzfeed.
- Christina Thomas Dhanaraj in The Ladies Finger writes on what it is like to be a Dalit woman in corporate India.
- Tanushree Bhowmick in Mint describes how kasundi is making its way into dishes all around the world, and goes back to look at the real paste that inspires what we eat today.
- “Among the many philanthropic jobs trees perform, giving humans oxygen and food among other things, this too must count: shielding the human from view,” writes Sumana Roy in her column on trees in Blink.
- Shaju Philip in the Indian Express introduces us to Kerala’s quotation gangs, which will silence anyone for a quoted fee.
- A soldier spoke about what a sahayak, effectively servants, does on camera, but didn’t know he was speaking to a journalist. Now the soldier is dead and Manisha Pande and Shruti Menon in Newslaundry have some questions for Quint, the outlet that published the sting operation.
- “Nationalism can never be imposed by fiat. This should be obvious. But, for some reason, it is becoming increasingly obvious that it is not,” says Tavleen Singh in the Indian Express.
- Pallavi Saluja from Bar and Bench speaks to Dushyant Dave, the lawyer who intervened in the case of former Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Kalikho Pul’s suicide note.
- Meet Goa’s best dancers via Ruchira Singh in Mint, who also tells us how despite the rich Portuguese heritage, Goans aren’t dancing as much as they used to.
- Benjamin Wittes in Lawfare has ten questions for US President Donald Trump after he alleged that former President Barack Obama had tapped Trump’s hotel.
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