Weekend reads:
- With the big India-Pakistan final at the Champions Trophy coming up on Sunday, Vithushan Entharajah in Cricket Monthly gives us a glimpse of this famous rivalry as it plays out in Britain.
- Ahead of the final, here is Nagraj Gollapudi’s interview of Indian men’s cricket team captain Virat Kohli, from 2015: “That is also something I have learned from a lot of senior players: do not fight the feeling. Appreciate it, accept it. Don’t fight the feeling of being confused. Don’t fight the feeling of being unable to figure out a plan because that keeps growing and eventually you will suffer much more.”
- Karthik Venkatesh in Mint looks back at a number of little-known Indian languages and scripts that are disappearing or have already gone extinct, including a “a version of the Tamil language that uses the Arabic alphabet and also has borrowed words from the Arabic language”.
- Even as the Centre has done much to improve India’s fiscal situation, state finances remain in a precarious position – and the introduction of farm loan waivers will only make things worse, write NK Singh and Prachi Mishra in the Hindu.
- Raghuvir Srinivasan in Hindu Businessline says the current situation with farmer agitations is reminiscent of 2003, the final year of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s government, when the India Shining campaign ended up oblivious to rural distress.
- A new self-aware genre of immigrant literature is charting the narratives of Biharis in Delhi, writes Aditya Mani Jha in Blink.
- Monika Halan in Mint takes us through one of the more straightforward and yet important questions about financial planning: How much money do we actually need for retirement?
- “Peruse business advice websites like Forbes.com and Harvard Business Review and the mountain of success manuals that populate airport bookstores and business school syllabi, and you will learn that Columbus was the world’s first entrepreneur, Plato’s Republic the ideal innovation hub, Leonardo da Vinci a model cross-platform disruptor, Ralph Waldo Emerson a model innovator, and L’Ouverture, an 18th-century Thought Leader,” writes John Patrick Leary in the New Inquiry, looking at how Silicon Valley co-opts history.
- “We may scoff at Freud for describing women’s sexuality as a ‘dark continent’ in 1926, but honestly, why the hell did it take this long for the whole clitoris to be put on the map?” writes Lara Frost in the Los Angeles Review of Books.
- I believe Bill Cosby, writes Laura McGann in Vox. “Even in the face of clear statements and corroborating evidence, we so often just don’t believe men when they say sexual assault is funny or when they say they do it. It’s time for us to start believing men.”
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