- In the Indian Express, Pratap Bhanu Mehta on how New Delhi’s strategy of containment by force has failed in Kashmir.
- In the Hindu, MK Narayanan on the Dalai Lama’s recent visit to Arunachal Pradesh and how China is straining against status quo in the region.
- In the Economic Times, Jay M Sanklecha on the sentencing of Khulbhushan Jadhav in Pakistan.
- In the Telegraph, Ramachandra Guha looks back on Gandhi’s stay in Champaran, 100 years after he first arrived in the North Bihar district.
- In Hindu BLInk, Anjum Hassan on the contested terrains of Bangladeshi nationalism where linguistic and religious identities still clash.
- For Livemint, Dhritiman Mukherjee plumbs the depths of the Baikal Lake and the White Sea to find differences between the life forms that thrive in salt water and those in sweet water.
- In the Guardian, Medea Benjamin on why the “Mother of All Bombs” will not bring peace.
- In the New Yorker, Robin Wright asks why the United States chose to drop its largest bomb on one of the smallest militias it had to fight.
- In the Haaretz, Anshel Pfeffer dissects North Korea’s missile parade.
- In the London Review of Books, Julian Barnes, a “Remainer” in Brexit Britain, reads a novel about immigrants in 1930s France.
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Expelled BJP Minority Morcha leader Usman Ghani arrested in Rajasthan
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Canada: Amid anti-immigration rhetoric, curbing international students is a knee-jerk reaction
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By mixing Carnatic and Hindustani, Mysore’s kings helped create a unique body of music
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Women’s Prize for Fiction: A reader’s guide to the six books on the 2024 shortlist
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The story of India’s unique ‘Milk Revolution’ is going to the Cannes Film Festival
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Yamini Aiyer interview: With jobless growth, welfare has become a ‘compensation’, not a public right
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National Conference fooling people with promise of restoring Article 370: Sajad Lone
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Why Calcutta HC struck down 25,000 teachers’ appointments and how it could impact the election
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‘Be freed from what holds you back’: Poems by Buddhist women from the Murty Classical Library