- In the Hindu, K Venkataraman on how death sentences represent the jurisprudence of outrage.
- In the Indian Express, Tavleen Singh argues that Arnab Goswami, founder of Republic TV, breaks a journalistic rule: the media should not usurp the powers of the criminal justice system.
- Aakar Patel, in the Business Standard, questions why the Kashmir conflict stirs more emotions than violence in the states of the North East or Maost-affected areas.
- Anant Maringanti argues in the Hindu BLInk that the Sukma attack by Maoists has invoked nationalistic responses but should prompt dialogue.
- In the Economic Times, RK Vaidyanathan and Mansi Singh on how the draft rules for the no-fly list need to be more clear cut.
- In the Guardian, Anne McElvoy on Friday’s cyber-attack and the menace of large-scale hack.
- In the New York Times, Wajahat Ali on how the only only political option left to Muslims in the United States seems to be the Democratic party.
- Decades of American policy helped create the North Korean dictator, Kim Jong-un, argues Bruce Cumings in the London Review of Books.
- Emily Schultheis dissects what went right with the French presidential polls in the Atlantic.
- After an earthquake devastated their country, 50,000 Haitians moved to the United States under special protections, reports Edwidge Danticat in the the New Yorker, now they may be forced to move back.
Reading
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What a meeting with a woman entrepreneur in Kolkata taught a German diplomat about women in India
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Interview: East India Company to Big Tech – how corporations think about knowledge
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Uttar Pradesh: BJP MLA, 15 others booked for gangrape, criminal intimidation in Badaun
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Centre changes election conduct rules days after HC tells EC to provide poll documents to petitioner
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‘Dune: Prophecy’ review: Palace intrigue overtakes magic in fantasy series
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Pune: Three killed, six injured as truck runs over persons sleeping on footpath
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Bar Council rules do not permit women lawyers to appear in court with face covered: J&K HC
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Why has the number of Hajj pilgrims from Jammu and Kashmir fallen sharply?
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Shirish Patel: The man and the public good
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1971 surrender photo removed from Army chief’s office, replaced by Mahabharata-inspired painting