1. In the Indian Express, Harish Damodaran argues that, under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Bharatiya Janata Party has courted Big Capital and the underclass, alienating its traditional constituency, the small trader.
  2. For an article in the Hindu, Rana Safvi visits “Chunna Miyan ka mandir” in Bareilly.
  3. Mukul Kesavan, in the Telegraph, tries to make sense of the stand off with China at Doklam.
  4. In the Economic Times, Boria Majumdar on how Harmanpreet Kaur may have changed the way India looks at the “gentleman’s game”.
  5. In the Hindu BLInk, Shriya Mohan visits Noida and finds a battle between the tenants of an upscale apartment complex and domestic workers have deepened the class divide.
  6. In the Guardian, Natalie Moore explains why OJ Simpson, whose murder trial shook America in the 1990s and who is due for release now, is an imperfect representative for black men wronged by the justice system in the United States.
  7. In the New York Times, playwright Ariel Dorfman on Shakespeare, Othello and torture deployed by the United States.
  8. In the Guardian Observer, Hassan Hassan on how the Islamic State could rise again if the cycle of violence is not broken.
  9. In the London Review of Books, Sheila Fitzpatrick explores a new “saga” of the Russian revolution and what it says about “good Communist homes”.
  10. Also in the Indian Express, Srinivas Chokkakula explains why India needs a stronger referee for river disputes.